Poetry and Politics: The Spanish Civil War Poetry of César Vallejo

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-170
Author(s):  
George Lambie
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Cesar Vallejo ◽  
War Poetry

W. H. Auden

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Galvin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Poetry ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
The Press

This chapter argues that W. H. Auden developed meta-rhetoric in response to his guilt about being too young to fight in World War I and to his reservations concerning the ethics of making verse out of other people’s bodily experience. After demonstrating that Auden’s Spanish Civil War poetry and prose was shaped by his critique of how the press mediates and represents war, the chapter examines his mock reportage of the Sino–Japanese War, contending that ethically motivated self-scrutiny drives Auden’s use of rhetoric during this period and is an unmistakable hallmark of his wartime poetry.

Flesh Made Word

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Galvin
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
War Poetry ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics

This chapter argues that César Vallejo’s engagement with journalism is crucial for comprehending the aesthetics and politics of his Spanish Civil War poetry, although this connection is often overlooked. Reading across genres brings to light Vallejo’s commitment to self-questioning as an ethical gesture in his war poems. It illuminates the idiosyncratic, dialectical poetics he developed to unite Catholicism and Marxism, lyric and epic, and poetry and news. Beyond his poetry’s political exhortation, which has received emphasis from scholars, its graphic portrayals of the relation between war death and the production of literature dramatizes the ethical and aesthetic problems inherent in transforming soldiers’ experiences into poetic material. This chapter contends that España, aparta de mí este cáliz is a meta-rhetorical reflection on its own conditions of articulation. This chapter sets the stage for those to follow, delineating issues that also motivate other civilian poets to employ meta-rhetoric in their war writing.

The Cunard Line

Nancy Cunard ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Jane Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
War Poetry ◽  
The West ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Line P

The chapter investigates Cunard’s identity as a poet, the challenges she faced as a woman poet, and the early publications of Outlaws (1921), Sublunary (1923), and Poems (Two) (1925). Marcus also explores Cunard’s involvement with the anti-war poetry anthology Wheels, her founding of The Hours Press, and the reception of her work by a male-dominated press. The author also discusses the early impetus behind her collection Negro Anthology and her political activism during the Spanish Civil War on behalf of poets from Harlem, Cuba, and The West Indies.

Through the prism of Spain. Socio-economic causes of different outcomes of Russian and Spanish civil wars

2017 ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
I. Rozinskiy ◽  
N. Rozinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World War I ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Russian Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Economic Well Being

The article examines the socio-economic causes of the outcome of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1936), which, as opposed to the Russian Civil War, resulted in the victory of the “Whites”. Choice of Spain as the object of comparison with Russia is justified not only by similarity of civil wars occurred in the two countries in the XX century, but also by a large number of common features in their history. Based on statistical data on the changes in economic well-being of different strata of Spanish population during several decades before the civil war, the authors formulate the hypothesis according to which the increase of real incomes of Spaniards engaged in agriculture is “responsible” for their conservative political sympathies. As a result, contrary to the situation in Russia, where the peasantry did not support the Whites, in Spain the peasants’ position predetermined the outcome of the confrontation resulting in the victory of the Spanish analogue of the Whites. According to the authors, the possibility of stable increase of Spanish peasants’ incomes was caused by the nation’s non-involvement in World War I and also by more limited, compared to Russia and some other countries, spending on creation of heavy (primarily military-related) industry in Spain.

The Spanish Reception of Le Sacre du Printemps (1913–1936)

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Idoia Murga Castro
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Silver Age ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
Rite Of Spring ◽  
Le Sacre Du Printemps ◽  
Cultural Expansion

Centenary celebrations are being held between 2016 and 2018 to mark the first consecutive tours of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Spain. This study analyses the Spanish reception of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1913), one of its most avant-garde pieces. Although the original work was never performed in Spain as a complete ballet, its influence was felt deeply in the work of certain Spanish choreographers, composers, painters and intellectuals during the so-called Silver Age, the period of modernisation and cultural expansion which extended from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Kate O'Brien and Virginia Woolf: Common Ground

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Alignments ◽  
Literary Influences ◽  
Kate O'brien

Convergences in the work of Kate O'Brien and Virginia Woolf range from literary influences and political alignments, to a shared approach to narrative point of view, structure, or conceptual use of words. Common ground includes existentialist preoccupations and tropes, a pacifism which did not hinder support for the left in the Spanish Civil War, the linking of feminism and decolonization, an affinity with anarchism, the identification of the normativity of fascism, and a determination to represent deviant sexualities and affects. Making evident the importance of the connection, O'Brien conceived and designed The Flower of May (1953), one of her most experimental and misunderstood novels, to paid homage to Woolf's oeuvre.

“The heart above the ruins”: Miriam Waddington’s Poetry, the Spanish Civil War, and Jewish Canadian Literature

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Robins Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Subject ◽  
War Consequences

The Jewish Canadian writer Miriam Waddington returned repeatedly to the subject of the Spanish Civil War, searching for hope amid the ruins of Spanish democracy. The conflict, a prelude to World War II, inspired an outpouring of literature and volunteerism. My paper argues for Waddington’s unique poetic perspective, in which she represents the Holocaust as the Spanish Civil War’s outgrowth while highlighting the deeply personal repercussions of the war – consequences for women, for the earth, and for community. Waddington’s poetry connects women’s rights to human rights, Canadian peace to European war, and Jewish persecution to Spanish carnage.

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