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T1 Why memorialize? Stephen Spender's aesthetics of remembrance in Vienna
A1 Sánchez-Pardo González, Esther
K1 poesía de la guerra
K1 Stephen Spender
K1 duelo
K1 memoria cultural
K1 melancolía
K1 trauma
AB Drawing from current theorization on aesthetics and from the heated debates of the representation of war and violence in arts, humanities and the media, this paper engages with the issue of art (and literature) and its condition in the world today, always at risk of masking the extremity or reality of suffering, either by suffocating it or assimilating it and turning it into an object of pleasure for the reader or spectator. With a reflection on issues on mourning and trauma, and within the domain of cultural memory, we take Stephen Spender’spoetry, and his long poem Vienna (1934), as a prime exponent of cultural production where loss and its aftermath—crucial as well in subject formation—becomes constitutive of the aesthetic, formal, and material properties of a good number of poems.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 0211-5913
YR 2011
FD 2011
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 01-may-2024