The Poetics of Apocalypse: Federico García Lorca's Poet in New YorkThis is the most in-depth study to date of Garcis Lorca's dark period, but Nandorfy moves away from biographical criticism to relate the darkness to the 'duende's' presence. This study examines how Lorca meshes biblical apocalypric discourse with his distinctively pantheistic imagery to represent a battle that is at once social, political, and mythical. |
Contents
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Sacrifice and SelfEffacement | 164 |
SOLITUDE WITH LIBERATED HORSE | 184 |
MAGICAL NUMBERS AND DISAPPEARING ACTS | 197 |
The End of Words Dancing and Drawing with the Duende | 209 |
THE DANCE OF DEATH IN THE OLD WORLD NEW WORLD AND NO WORLD | 216 |
DRAWING THE UNSAYABLE | 238 |
Afterword | 265 |
Notes | 275 |
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ODE TO WALT WHITMAN | 147 |
Bibliography | 302 |
Index | 308 |
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The Poetics of Apocalypse: Federico García Lorca's Poet in New York Martha Nandorfy No preview available - 2003 |
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Page 55 - clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath
Page 107 - him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 40 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 133 - fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Page 40 - And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet."
Page 161 - And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 111 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. . . . And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the Glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 40 - neither cold nor hot: I would thou were cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.