Octavio Paz A Study of His Poetics

Name: Octavio Paz A Study of His Poetics
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ISBN: 9780521223065

ISBN-10: 0521223067

ISBN-13: 9780521223065

Edition: 1979

Authors: Jason Wilson

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Jason Wilson's 'spiritual biography' of a poet-thinker approaches Paz's poetics through his fertile relationship with Andre Breton, the surrealist leader.

Book details

List price: $34.50
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/21/1979
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Jason Wilson is emeritus professor of Latin American literature at the University College London. He is the author of Octavio Paz: A Study of His Poetics, An A-Z of Modern Latin American Literature in English Translation, and Buenos Aires: A Cultural and Literary Companion.



Preface


Introduction



Octavio Paz and surrealism: attitude versus activity



The Marquis de Sade, surrealism and Paz's 'El prisonero'



Mentalist poetics, the quest, fiesta and other motifs



The nature myth



The East



A reading of Paz's Le Singe grammairien



A reading of 'Vuelta'


Notes


Bibliography


Index