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The Intellectual and the Masses: A Sidelight on Lorca's 'Poeta en Nueva York'

David Walters

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

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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 a...

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ISSN: 1470-1847 1469-9524
Published: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 2011
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