Poetry and Loss e-bog
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The first book-length account in English of Montejo's life and work.In a study which covers the entirety of Montejo's career as poet and essayist, this book examines how the work of this seminal Venezuelan writer explores and deals with the experiences of loss in the twentieth century. Focusing onthe broad areas of temporal and spatial loss, the analysis underlines the different levels on which...
E-bog
253,01 DKK
Forlag
Tamesis Books
Udgivet
19 november 2009
Længde
244 sider
Genrer
1DS
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781846157523
The first book-length account in English of Montejo's life and work.In a study which covers the entirety of Montejo's career as poet and essayist, this book examines how the work of this seminal Venezuelan writer explores and deals with the experiences of loss in the twentieth century. Focusing onthe broad areas of temporal and spatial loss, the analysis underlines the different levels on which such experiences are located in Montejo's writing, from the personal to the national, from the continental to the wider ontological, all filtered through the poet's own lived experience of growing up and writing in Venezuela. It explores how the poetic act emerges throughout as the potential means by which such experiences can be expressed and through whichsuch loss can be reversed and, henceforth, avoided. This represents the first book-length study in English of Montejo's work and the first monograph in any language to offer a sustained thematic analysis of his entire output. In the process, it serves to bring out from the academic shadows one of the most important and commanding poetic voices to appear in Latin America in the last fifty years. NICHOLAS ROBERTS lectures in Hispanic Studies at the University of Durham.