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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAcereda and Guevara offer a voluminous study that focuses on the Nicaraguan poet's anguish in relation to his times, which were characterized by Latin America's traumatic and definitive incorporation in the world economic system as a subservient component. Summing Up: Optional. Comprehensive graduate and research collections. -- G. Gómez-Ocampo, Wabash College * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Modernism, Modernity and the Poetics of Despair: Darío, Modernism and Modernity; Formulating a Definition of the Modern Poetics of Despair; Darío and the Origin of Modern Despair Chapter 3 Darío and the Paradigms of Modernity: Modernism and Fin-de-Siècle; The Modernist Struggle for Life; Darío's Modernity in Contemporary Hispanic Poetry Chapter 4 A Life Within Poetry: Darío: A Poet in Despair; The Source and Development of Despair in Darío; Life and Poetry: The Editorial Status Chapter 5 Poetry of Existential Despair: Existential Despair in Darío; Despair in Confronting Life; Optimism and Hope; Occultism and the Oneiric; Death and Fate Chapter 6 The Poetics of Despair and Religion: The Wavering Darío: Paganism and Christianity; Darío the Believer versus Darío the Skeptic; The Esoteric Doctrines. The Orphic-Pythagorean Chapter 7 Poetic Eros of Despair and Desire: The Erotic Experience in Darío; Darío's Poetic Eros; The Feminine Image in Darío Chapter 8 The Social and Artistic Despair: The Politics of Social Despair; Darío's Vision of Artistic and Social Modernity Chapter 9 Epilogue Chapter 10 Bibliography Chapter 11 Authors' Biographical Sketches Chapter 12 Index
