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The Intellectual and the Masses: A Sidelight on Lorca's 'Poeta en Nueva York'
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Volume: 17, Issue: 2-3, Pages: 209 - 220
Swansea University Author: David Walters
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/14701847.2011.648919
Abstract
Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York has been conventionally read as a product of the poet's unhappy experience in that city in 1929-30, and it has been often argued that his alienation was a result of a culture shock. In this article I suggest a different perspective whereby Lorca's disgust a...
| Published in: | Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies |
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| ISSN: | 1470-1847 1469-9524 |
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Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies
2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11417 |
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Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York has been conventionally read as a product of the poet's unhappy experience in that city in 1929-30, and it has been often argued that his alienation was a result of a culture shock. In this article I suggest a different perspective whereby Lorca's disgust at various aspects of city life fits squarely within a vein of modernist, predominantly Anglo-Saxon, literature about the modern metropolis. In particular, the kind of attitude towards cities and crowds described in John Carey's The Intellectual and the Masses provides an illuminating point of reference for Lorca's collection. A key work in understanding this vision of the city is, nonetheless, a Spanish one: Ortega y Gasset's La rebelion de las masas. |
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Lorca. Poeta en Nueva York. Modernism. The city. John Carey |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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2-3 |
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209 |
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220 |