Ruin and Restitution: Reinterpreting Romanticism in Spain

by Philip W. Silver

Overview

In this highly suggestive work, Philip Silver confronts and corrects the entire critical tradition on Spanish romanticism and suggests a new "restitutional" theory of that period in Spanish cultural and political history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826512895
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	07/31/1997
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip W. Silver, Professor of Spanish at Columbia University, is one of the foremost scholars, editors and translators of Spanish literature, particularly in the area of contemporary Spanish poetry, the poetry of Luis Cernuda, Ortega y Gasset's philosophy, and recent Spanish politics. His publications include a translation of Fictive Discourse and the Structures of Literature, by Felix Martinez-Bonati (Cornell University Press, 1981) and his original study Luis Cernuda: el poeta en su levenda (Castalia, 1996).

Editorial Reviews

Silver's treatment of an elusive literary past and his evocation of 19th-century Spanish authors amount to a revisionary construction that makes this volume required reading for all serious students of Spanish romanticism.
—Choice

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