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Book Pablo Neruda y Nancy Cunard

Download or read book Pablo Neruda y Nancy Cunard written by Rafael Osuna and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El autor recupera la colaboración de Pablo Neruda y Nancy Cunard para imprimir una serie de trabajos de poesía para recaudar fondos destinados a apoyar a la República española. A través de estos textos Osuna nos ofrece además una biografía detallada de una interesante personalidad que no debe pasarse por alto: la de la escritora inglesa Nancy Cunard, una mujer de gran talento y gran compromiso político.

Book Nancy Cunard

Download or read book Nancy Cunard written by Lois Gordon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history." Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Cunard abandoned the world of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a lifelong battle against social injustice as a wartime journalist, humanitarian aid worker, and civil rights champion. Cunard fought fascism on the battlefields of Spain and reported firsthand on the atrocities of the French concentration camps. Intelligent and beautiful, she romanced the great writers of her era, including three Nobel Prize winners, and was the inspiration for characters in the works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. Cunard was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to fighting for black rights. She edited the controversial anthology Negro, the first comprehensive study of the achievement and plight of blacks around the world. Her contributors included Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among scores of others. Cunard's personal life was as complex as her public persona. Her involvement with the civil rights movement led her to be ridiculed and rejected by both family and friends. Throughout her life, she was plagued by insecurities and suffered a series of breakdowns, struggling with a sense of guilt over her promiscuous behavior and her ability to survive so much war and tragedy. Yet Cunard's writings also reveal an immense kindness and wit, as well as her renowned, often flamboyant defiance of prejudiced social conventions. Drawing on diaries, correspondence, historical accounts, and the remembrances of others, Lois Gordon revisits the major movements of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of a truly gifted and extraordinary woman. She also returns Nancy Cunard to her rightful place as a major figure in the historical, social, and artistic events of a critical era.

Book A Companion to Pablo Neruda

Download or read book A Companion to Pablo Neruda written by Jason Wilson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas, an early Romantic visionary and a later Marxist populist, who denied his earlier poetic self. By focussing on the poet's apprenticeship, and by looking closely at how Neruda created his poetic persona within his poems, this Companion tries to establish what should survive of his massive output. By seeing his early work as self exploration through metaphor and sound, as well as through varieties of love and direct experience, the Companion outlines a unity behind all the work, based on voice and a public self. Neruda's debt to reading and books is studied in depth and the change in poetics re-examined by concentrating on the early work up to Residencia en la tierra I and II and why he wanted to become a poet. Debate about quality and representativity is grounded in his Romantic thinking, sensibility and sincerity. Unlike a Borges or a Paz who accompanied their creative work with analytical essays, Neruda distilled all his experiences into his poems, which remainhis true biography. Jason Wilson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, University College London.

Book Nancy Cunard

Download or read book Nancy Cunard written by Lois G. Gordon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. She abandoned the world of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a lifelong battle against social injustice as a wartime journalist, humanitarian aid worker, and civil rights champion. This biography tells the story of this woman.

Book Nancy Cunard

Download or read book Nancy Cunard written by Jane Marcus and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and “sexually dangerous New Woman,” offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21st century considerations of gender, race, and class.

Book Nancy Cunard

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  • Author : François Buot
  • Publisher : Fayard/Pauvert
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 272021602X
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Nancy Cunard written by François Buot and published by Fayard/Pauvert. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Cunard est née avec le vingtième siècle. Elle l’a traversé avec passion et fureur en allant jusqu’au bout de ses désirs. Avec une certaine audace pour l’époque, cette Anglaise de bonne famille aristocratique fut tour à tour poète, éditrice, écrivain, journaliste, militante. Sans jamais transiger sur sa liberté de penser et d’agir, elle imposa sa silhouette d’égérie inquiète des années folles. Immortalisée par son ami, le photographe Man Ray, la femme aux bracelets africains est toujours restée fidèle à ses révoltes et à ses rêves de jeunesse. Fille spirituelle de George Moore, elle fut très proche des surréalistes, plus particulièrement de Tzara et Crevel. Elle rencontra Pablo Neruda à Madrid, alors qu’elle combattait aux côtés des Républicains espagnols. Elle croqua les hommes comme la vie avec frénésie. Mais elle n’eut véritablement que deux amours : Louis Aragon, dont elle fut la muse éternelle, et Henry Crowder, le musicien noir américain qui l’aida à publier la Negro Anthology, pour réhabiliter la culture noire. Dans ce récit extrêmement vivant et richement documenté, François Buot retrace le destin unique de Nancy Cunard, à une époque exceptionnelle : on traverse avec elle l’Angleterre puritaine réveillée par le Bloomsbury, le Paris surréaliste et les virées au Bœuf sur le toit, les Etats-Unis du jazz noir et de l’intolérance, l’Amérique latine des exilés politiques... François Buot, agrégé et docteur en Lettres, professeur d’histoire, a notamment écrit les biographies de René Crevel et de Tristan Tzara.

Book Cartas de amor

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  • Author : Pablo Neruda
  • Publisher : Ediciones Cátedra
  • Release : 2022-09-01
  • ISBN : 8437644682
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Cartas de amor written by Pablo Neruda and published by Ediciones Cátedra. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las cartas de amor de Pablo Neruda reunidas en esta edición muestran la exaltación y la inquietud del hombre enamorado con respecto a sus numerosas musas (Terusa, Albertina, Olga, Delia, Matilde, etc.). También contemplan el vínculo profundo que une al joven poeta con su hermana Laura, su confidente preferida, y a su "mamadre", Trinidad Candia Marverde, que sustituyó a su madre verdadera, muerta prematuramente. A ambas se dirigen muestras de afecto y atención que enriquecen la exuberante lista de la experiencia amorosa de Neruda, aportando el matiz de ternura que alberga el corazón del poeta. El epistolario amoroso de Neruda (aparte de algunas cartas a Terusa, Albertina y Matilde, capaces de crear un mundo exclusivo de pasión y ensueño) revela un espacio poblado de referencias personales y, al mismo tiempo, muestra la extraordinaria riqueza de los intereses vitales del poeta. Las misivas de amor tienen un carácter eminentemente privado en el que conviven, junto a los apelativos y las palabras ardientes reservadas a las mujeres amadas, la presencia de compañeros, vecinos, parientes, y la evocación de acontecimientos que a veces iluminan la gestación del mundo poético del autor.

Book Nancy Cunard

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  • Author : Hugh D. Ford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 808 pages

Download or read book Nancy Cunard written by Hugh D. Ford and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nancy Cunard

Download or read book Nancy Cunard written by Jane Marcus and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, this book rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and 'sexually dangerous new woman', offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21st century considerations of gender, race, and class.

Book Pablo Neruda

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  • Author : Hensley Charles Woodbridge
  • Publisher : Scholarly Title
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 656 pages

Download or read book Pablo Neruda written by Hensley Charles Woodbridge and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1988 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ezra Pound and the Spanish World

Download or read book Ezra Pound and the Spanish World written by Viorica Patea and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers for the first time criticism, biographical essays, analysis, translation studies, and reminiscences of Ezra Pound’s extensive interaction with Spain and Spanish culture, from his earliest visits to Spain in 1902 and 1906 and his study of significant Spanish writers to the dedication of the first monument erected anywhere to Pound in the small Spanish village of Medinaceli in 1973. Divided into two sections, Part One: “ON EZRA POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD” includes a general introduction on Pound’s lifelong involvement with Spain, together with chapters on Pound’s study of classical Spanish literature, the Spanish dimension in The Cantos, Pound’s contemporary Spanish connections, and his legacy in contemporary Spanish letters. Part Two: “EZRA POUND AND THE SPANISH WORLD: A READER,” then gathers for the first time Pound’s own writings (postcards, letters, and essays) concerning Spain and Spanish writers, as well as his correspondence with Spanish poets Miguel de Unamuno and Juan Ramón Jiménez and with José Vázquez Amaral, the first Spanish translator of The Cantos in its entirety. The volume includes reminiscences by Spanish Novísimos poets, Antonio Colinas and Jaime Siles, written explicitly for this collection. Besides providing a thorough exploration into Pound’s engagement with Spain, this volume pays homage to Pound’s considerable influence on Spanish culture.

Book The Last Good Land

Download or read book The Last Good Land written by Eugenio Suárez-Galbán and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books studying the presence of Spain in American literature, and the possible influence of Spain and its literature on American authors, are still rare. In 1955 appeared a pioneer work in this field – Stanley T. Williams’ The Spanish Background of American Literature. But that book went no further than W.D. Howells’ Familiar Spanish Travels, published in 1913. The Last Good Land covers most of the twentieth century, including such groups as the Lost Generation and African American writers and exiles. It also considers then recent revolution in Spanish cultural and historical thought introduced by Américo Castro, which several American writers discussed in this volume may be said to have anticipated. Recent studies have expanded on Williams’ volumes, but in the majority of cases these works limit their scope to a single period (the nineteenth century, the Spanish Civil War), a movement (predominantly Romanticism) or authors known for their interest in Spain (Irving, Hemingway). The result is often a lack of continuum, or the exclusion of such authors as Saul Bellow, William Gaddis or Richard Wright. Within American literature itself, The Last Good Land contains revisions of traditional interpretations of certain writers, including Hemingway. The variety of authors treated, both in respect to ethnicity and gender, guarantees a varied and global view of Spanish culture by American writers.

Book Memories and Representations of War

Download or read book Memories and Representations of War written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to the present volume approach World War I and World War II as complex and intertwined crossroads leading to the definition of the new European (and world) reality, and deeply pervading the making of the twentieth century. These scholars belong to different yet complementary areas of research – history, literature, cinema, art history; they come from various national realities and discuss questions related to Italy, Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain, at times introducing a comparison between European and North American memories of the two World War experiences. These scholars are all guided by the same principle: to encourage the establishment of an interdisciplinary and trans-national dialogue in order to work out new approaches capable of integrating and acknowledging different or even opposing ways to perceive and interpret the same historical phenomenon. While assessing the way the memories of the two World Wars have been readjusted each time in relation to the evolving international historical setting and through various mediators of memory (cinema, literature, art and monuments), the various essays contribute to unveil a cultural panorama inhabited by contrasting memories and by divided memories not to emphasise divisions, but to acknowledge the ethical need for a truly shared act of reconciliation.

Book British Women and the Spanish Civil War

Download or read book British Women and the Spanish Civil War written by Angela Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through oral and written narratives, this book examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues, such as the nature of memory and the role of women within the public sphere. The extent to which women engaged with this cause surpasses by far other instances of female mobilization in peace-time Britain. Such a phenomenon therefore can offer lessons to those who would wish to encourage a greater degree of interest amongst women in political activities today.

Book Cities in Ruins

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  • Author : Cecilia Enjuto Rangel
  • Publisher : Purdue University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 155753571X
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Cities in Ruins written by Cecilia Enjuto Rangel and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures publishes studies on topics of literary, theoretical, or philological importance that make a significant contribution to scholarship in French. Italian. Luso Brazilian, Spanish, and Spanish American literatures. --Book Jacket.

Book The Golden Moments of Paris

Download or read book The Golden Moments of Paris written by John Baxter and published by Museyon. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Golden Moments of Paris, John Baxter uncovers fascinating true stories about the characters that gave Paris its &“character&” in the years between World War I and World War II. Explore one of the world's most beautiful and loved cities in 26 fact-filled, humorous, and dramatic stories about the famed Années Folles—the Crazy Years—at the turn of the 20th century in Paris. Learn about Gertrude Stein and her famous writers' salon, Salvador Dali and the Surrealists, the birth of Chanel No. 5, and the antics of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the &“lost generation.&” Then see what these areas look like today by following along on the guided walking tours of Paris's historic neighborhoods and the cafes, clubs, and brothels that were home to the intellectuals, artists, and Bohemians, illustrated with color photographs and period maps.

Book Mosaic Fictions

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  • Author : Emily Robins Sharpe
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2020-04-02
  • ISBN : 1487513151
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Mosaic Fictions written by Emily Robins Sharpe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Exploring published and archival writings, the book focuses on the extensive contributions of Jewish Canadian authors as they articulate the stakes of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9) in the language of a nascent North American multiculturalism. Placing Jewish Canadian writers within overlapping North American networks of Jewish, Black, immigrant, female, and queer writers challenges the national distinctions that dominate current critical approaches to Anglophone Spanish Civil War literature. Reframing the narrative of Spain’s noble but tragic struggle against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, the book demonstrates how marginalized North American supporters of the Spanish Republic crafted narratives of inclusive citizenship amidst a national crisis not entirely their own. Mosaic Fictions examines texts composed between the war’s outbreak and the present to illuminate the integral connections between Canada’s developing national identity and global leftist action.