Una armonÂ’a de caprichos: el discurso de respuesta en la prosa de Rubén Darío (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) (Spanish Edition)

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Through a political and cultural reading of Rub©n Dar­o's canonical works, Francisco Solares-Larrave articulates an innovative view of Spanish American modernismo as a cultural reply to Europe. Unlike other studies of the politics of Spanish American modernismo, which explore Dar­o's overt political works, this study looks for the covert, less evident political statements in his artistic literary and journalistic prose. Solares-Larrave demonstrates the cultural transformations of the time while presenting Dar­o's contributions to Spanish American literature as his reply to Europe, the cultural center of the time. The rebelliousness, political awareness, and cultural criticism that appear in Dar­o's prose make a sharp contrast to his traditional image as a writer blind to the political and social circumstances of the time, whose work was derided as escapist and shallow.

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