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The Poetry of Antonio Machado

Changing the Landscape

Xon de Ros author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:25th Jun '15

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This study offers a reappraisal of the contribution of the poet Antonio Machado to Modernism, seeking to open up new perspectives for the interpretation of his poetry, and includes for the first time a comparative analysis of Machado's translators into English. While the book is attentive to areas of recent critical debate, the argument keeps Machado's poems to the fore, with new detailed readings of many of his most significant poems. The reader will find that the structure of this book also allows for a separate exploration of each of Machado's main poetic tendencies. One associated with the Symbolist poetics is considered in Chapter I dealing with those early poems where the sound of water acquires a rich symbolic meaning. An emphasis on the visual imagination is more prevalent in the material studied in chapters II and III with a focus on the natural landscape, while the more conceptual and intellectual strand occupies Chapter IV. Every individual chapter begins with a brief introduction to the theoretical ground related to the specific discussion (on gender, space-place, the sublime, and translation, respectively), and a survey of the cultural discourses which situate the material under analysis in the original historical contexts.

In her Introduction, Xon de Ros mentions her intention to confront the challenge of combining what Machado termed 'saber erudito, noticioso y libresco' (14) with a close reading of individual poems, and her hope that she will be able to offer 'new perspectives and vantage points from which to reconsider the varied landscapes of [Machado's] poetry' (15). She has acquitted herself brilliantly on both counts. * Jordi Larios, Bulletin of Spanish Studies *
Beyond imparting considerable knowledge of Machado, aesthetics, modernism, postmodernism and recent approaches in literary studies ranging from ecopoetics to translation theory, The Poetry of Antonio Machado: Changing the Landscape - as the book's title advertises - makes its most important contribution by altering the way in which we approach Machado's poetry. Specialists and advanced students alike would do as well to read De Ros's textual analyses of Machado as they would to follow her lead in reading between the lines of Machado studies, thereby disturbing the status quo and remapping the field of inquiry. * Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies *
Xon de Ros offers a demanding yet stimulationg rereading of Machado ... Her command of Machado's oeuvre is total, her commentaries sure, her readings of the poems incisive and subtle. * Richard A Cardwell, The Times Literary Supplement *

ISBN: 9780198736806

Dimensions: 222mm x 147mm x 23mm

Weight: 492g

294 pages