Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism
The Tragic Aesthetic of the Vates Poets
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 2 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9798765126783
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 b&w illustrations 700
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Short description:
A transatlantic study of Hispanic literary modernism's use of prophetic discourse as an attempt to counter modern nihilism and provide modernity with poetry as its new Scripture, a phenomenon developed in Spanish across nations, creeds, genders and literary traditions.
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A study of Hispanic planetary modernism's use of prophetic discourse as an attempt to counter modern nihilism and provide modernity with poetry as its new Scripture.
Traditional studies of established literary modernisms (such as in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) have long acknowledged the prophetic authority and tragic struggle for sacredness within modernity. As Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism argues, the aesthetic and ideological phenomenon of the Vates (or prophetic) poet is also present in the rich tradition of Hispanic literature that spans more than 20 countries. However, the later modernization of Spain and Spanish America postpones its adoption until the advent of literary modernism.
Matthew Fehskens shows that this prophetic role is consistent across multiple poets in Europe, Spanish America, and the United States and constitutes a fundamental aspect of the transatlantic production of modernism in Spanish. The phenomenon is wide ranging, from the movement's founding authors, such as Cuban José Martí and Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, to Uruguayan poets Delmira Agustini and María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, and Spanish authors Antonio Machado, Miguel de Unamuno, and Ramón del Valle Inclán.
Hispanic modernism had lofty aims, namely to speak poetic words of divine import to a culture ravaged by the Age of Reason and the materialism of modernity. Its authors aimed to transcend the limitations of literature, reason, and a disenchanted culture to create modern scriptures. This study demonstrates the centrality of prophecy in the development of Hispanic poetry in modernity.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Birdsong of Armenteira: Literary Bergsonism in the Prophetic Literature of Hispanic Modernism
2. The Curse of Cassandra: Modernista Prophets in Exile
3. Puta or Madre: The Inverted Prophecies of Delmira Agustini and María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
4. The Prophet's Pilgrimage: Enrique Gómez Carrillo and the Prophetic Tradition of Al Andalus in Hispanic Modernism's Crónica
5. The Jesuit Roots of Hispanic Modernism: A Planetary Phenomenon
Epilogue
References
Index
