Woman and the Infinite: Epiphanic Moments in Pedro Salinas's Art - Rilegato

Hartfield-Mendez, Vialla

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ISBN 10: 0838752950 ISBN 13: 9780838752951

Casa editrice: Bucknell Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

Woman and the Infinite demonstrates how Pedro Salinas's poetry and frequently overlooked narrative and theater reveal a preoccupation with the nature of time, especially extraordinary moments that transcend space and time. Many of these moments are intimately connected with the man-woman, yo-tu relationship. Salinas's exploration of this theme is best understood in the context of other modern literary evocations of epiphanic moments. Such literary phenomena as William Wordsworth's "spots of time" and James Joyce's "epiphanies" are among the precursors of Salinas's moments of eternity, as are moments of timelessness in works by Marcel Proust and the French Symbolist poets. Salinas's reception of the Symbolists was direct, but also refracted through his reading of the Latin American modernistas, especially Ruben Dario. In his well-known commentary on Dario, Salinas connects the perception of woman with a visionary moment of extraordinary lucidity, a connection found in his own works.
Woman is elusive for Salinas. She has a multiplicity of forms and varying identities that are expressed with mirrors and shadows or Classical and Biblical mythological archetypes. All of these are found in "Aurora de verdad" from Vispera del gozo, a narrative piece which can be read as representative of Salinas's work as a whole. Specific images in the story, including mirrored figures and references to mythological goddesses, are also key elements in a trajectory in Salinas's works in general toward an all-encompassing, absolute, and infinite moment.

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Vialla Hartfield-Mendez is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish at Emory University.

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Book by HartfieldMendez Vialla

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• Editore: Bucknell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0838752950
• ISBN 13: 9780838752951
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 185