Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's 'proverbios Y Cantares'

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Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain’s most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. From his early poems in Soledades. Galerías. Otros poemas of 1907, to the writings of his alter-ego Juan de Mairena of the 1930s, Machado endeavoured to explain how the Other became a concern for the self. In The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s “Proverbios y cantares,” Nicolás Fernández-Medina examines how Machado’s “Proverbios y cantares,” a collection of short, proverbial poems spanning from 1909 to 1937, reveal some of the poet’s deepest concerns regarding the self-Other relationship. To appreciate Machado’s organizing concept of otherness in the “Proverbios y cantares,” Fernández-Medina argues how it must be contextualized in relation to the underlying Romantic concerns that Machado struggled with throughout most of his oeuvre, such as autonomy, solipsism and skepticism of absolutes. In The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s “Proverbios y cantares,” Fernández-Medina demonstrates how Machado continues a practice of “fragment thinking” to meld the poetic and the philosophical, the part and whole, and the finite and infinite to bring light to the complexities of the self-Other relationship and its relevance in discussions of social and ethical improvement in early twentieth-century Spain.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-01-31
Mått:138 x 216 x 11 mm
Vikt:376 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Iberian and Latin American Studies
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9780708323229

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Dr N. Fernandez Medina is Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University.

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'Fernandez-Medina's book, with its decent bibliography and helpful index, shows that the finite inquiry into the works of Antonio Machado is far from being exhausted. This text is a serious and welcome contribution to that process.' - Philip G. Johnston, Bulletin of Spanish Studies August 2013

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INTRODUCTION Beyond the Lyrical and the Proverbial: Antonio Machado's Poetic Thinking I. THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVITY: HOW TO KNOW THE SELF AND OTHER Kantian Metaphysics and the Need for Realness The Rise of Individualism Reading the Fragment, Reading the Whole: Poetry's Becoming The 'proverbio' and 'cantar': A Brief Genealogy II. TOWARDS CONCEIVING THE OTHER: THE FORMATIVE YEARS The Machado Family The Institucion Libre de Ensenanza and the Krausist 'hombre' The Madrid Years: Folk Poetry in the Age of Romantic Exhaustion The Influence of Eduardo Benot Early Poetic Symbolism: The Soledades III. FROM ART TO LIFE: CRITICAL INQUIRIES AND A NEW POETRY The Machado-Unamuno Correspondence 1903-1905 The modernismo Question Cain, Abel and the Thirsting Brother Poetic Inspiration: The Honey Bee IV. THE GOD OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY Spain's Spiritual Crisis and Unamuno's Lessons on God The Janus-faced God: Presence and Absence The Divine Light Within: Machado's Critique of Organized Religion Jesus as Symbol V. THE DOUBLE BIND OF KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE Ignorance and Spain's 'problema de cultura' The Problem of Empty-Headedness Cucana Logic The Collective Meaning of 'saber' The Infinity of Knowledge and Ignorance CONCLUSION The Infinite Inquiry Machado's Trajectory Toward Otherness From Machado to Levinas