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This 1976 book was the first full-length study in English of the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo (18921938). Franco explores limitations on the poet's freedom of speech, and goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which gestures towards the tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry its abiding relevance.

Table of Contents
Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Poetry as a mode of existence; 2. The alienated romantic: Los heraldos negros; 3. The body as text: nature and culture in Vallejo's poetics; 4. The end of the sovereign illusion: Trilce; 5. The discourse of the given: Trilce; 6. Art and revolution; 7. The dialectics of man and nature; 8. The destruction of Prometheus: Poemas humanos; 9. The mirror of the world: España, aparta de mí este cáliz; 10. The invention of Vallejo; Guide to texts and criticism; Notes; Index.

Cesar Vallejo The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 1/26/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521157810, 978-0521157810
      ISBN10: 0521157811
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 1976 book was the first full-length study in English of the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo (18921938). Franco explores limitations on the poet's freedom of speech, and goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which gestures towards the tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry its abiding relevance.

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Poetry as a mode of existence; 2. The alienated romantic: Los heraldos negros; 3. The body as text: nature and culture in Vallejo's poetics; 4. The end of the sovereign illusion: Trilce; 5. The discourse of the given: Trilce; 6. Art and revolution; 7. The dialectics of man and nature; 8. The destruction of Prometheus: Poemas humanos; 9. The mirror of the world: España, aparta de mí este cáliz; 10. The invention of Vallejo; Guide to texts and criticism; Notes; Index.

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