Aesthetics of equilibrium : the vanguard poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mário de Andrade / Bruce Dean Willis.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Purdue studies in Romance literatures.
Main Author: Willis, Bruce Dean, 1968-
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Purdue studies in Romance literatures.
Subjects:
Huidobro, Vicente, > 1893-1948 > Criticism and interpretation.
Andrade, Mário de, > 1893-1945 > Criticism and interpretation.
Latin American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Physical Description:xxv, 236 pages ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Vanguard poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mario de Andrade.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Poetry as orientation of the creative self : Vicente Huidobro
  • Poetic engineering : creating the poetic realm in Huidobro's early manifestos
  • Orientation and trajectory in "Aviso a los turistas" and "Manifiesto tal vez"
  • Dimensions of the poet god : Huidobro's final manifestos
  • Poetry as contraband from the unconscious : Mário de Andrade
  • "Prefácio interessantíssimo" as mock manifesto
  • At the dock and on the street : the loss of purity and solidarity in Mário's poetics
  • Balancing the equations : Mário's struggle to define aesthetic simultaneity
  • A poetics of equilibrium and the avant-garde paradox.