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- Title
Imagery and How it Works in Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York: The Case of '1910 (Intermedio)'.
- Authors
Anderson, Andrew A
- Abstract
The terms 'image' and 'imagery' have changed their meanings over time and are employed very inconsistently by commentators. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Marinetti, Pound, Eliot, Reverdy and Breton, among others, weighed in with innovative proposals of their own with respect to what an image was and how it worked. Lorca's thinking on the subject of metaphor, image and what he called the 'hecho poético' evolved too, with analogies to be made between the latter concept and theories of Jean Epstein and Eliot. The variety of critical opinions concerning Poeta en Nueva York mandates careful scrutiny of individual texts, and a stylistic analysis of '1910 (Intermedio)' reveals a mixture of more conventional and more modern imagistic techniques, the most prominent of which align quite closely with Eliot's notion of the 'objective correlative' – in his words 'a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula' of a particular emotion. This finding adds weight to the argument against Surrealism as a dominant factor in the stylistic orientation of many of the poems in the collection.
- Subjects
POETA en Nueva York (Book); GARCIA Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936; POETRY collections; LITERARY criticism; POETRY (Literary form); FIGURES of speech in literature; METAPHOR in literature; SURREALISM
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2021, Vol 57, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/cqaa049