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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.
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

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 janvier 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780708323236
Langue	English

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Iberian and Latin American Studies

The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y Cantares’

Nicolás Fernández-Medina

University of Wales Press

Iberian and Latin American Studies

The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y cantares’

Series Editors Professor David George (Swansea University) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)

Editorial Board David Frier (University of Leeds) Laura Shaw (University of Liverpool) Gareth Walters (Swansea University) Rob Stone (Swansea University) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of Nottingham) Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES

The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y cantares’

Nicolás Fernández-Medina

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Contents

Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements

Introduction Beyond the Lyrical and the Proverbial: Antonio Machado’s Poetic Thinking Chapter 1: The Problem of Subjectivity: How to Know the Self and Other Chapter 2: Towards Conceiving the Other: The Formative Years Chapter 3: From Art to Life: Critical Inquiries and a New Poetry Chapter 4: The God of Intersubjectivity Chapter 5: The Double Bind of Knowledge and Ignorance Conclusion Works Cited Notes Index

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Foreword

Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superceded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds – categories that extend far beyond the conﬁnes of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa. In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disci-plinary and interdisciplinary research within the general ﬁeld of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of cultural production (inter alia literature, ﬁlm, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.