Lorca the Gay Imagination [Hardcover]

Paul Binding (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1985 | ISBN-10: 0907040373 | ISBN-13: 978-0907040378

Lorca is one of the greatest modern poets. His later and most powerful works however remain elusive even to Lorca scholars. For just as Lorca cannot be understood in isolation from the cultural traditions of Spain and Andalusia, so it is also necessary to appreciate the poet's vantage point as a gay person, if his meaning is to be fully understood. The hinge of this stimulating and emphatic study is Lorca's visit to New York in 1929. Many of the tensions of his New York poems are show to be anticipated in his earlier works. The book goes on to trace in Lorca's subsequent writings the impact of his confrontation with the American metropolis, and the sharpened awareness of a gay identity to which this gave rise.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Paul Binding is a novelist, critic, poet and cultural historian. He studied English Literature at Oxford University. He has written over ten books. Four - The Still Moment: Eudora Welty, Portrait of a Writer, Lorca, St Martin's Ride and My Cousin the Writer - are to be reissued in Faber Finds. Paul has a particular interest in the American South and Scandinavia. He lives in The Marches (the borderland of England and Wales). --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 238 pages
• Publisher: Heretic Books (June 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0907040373
• ISBN-13: 978-0907040378
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,613,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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