TY - GEN T1 - Madrid's forgotten avant-garde : between essentialism and modernity T2 - Sussex studies in Spanish history. A1 - Schammah Gesser, Silvina LA - English PP - Brighton ; Chicago PB - Sussex Academic Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn928602834 AB - Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity that polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry-in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters the Generation of '27-created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Author Silvina Schammah Gesser exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as the. CN - PQ6073.E94 S33 2015 SN - 9781782842439 SN - 1782842438 SN - 9781782842415 SN - 1782842411 SN - 9781836240921 SN - 1836240929 SN - 9781845193843 SN - 1845193849 KW - Literature, Experimental : Spain : History and criticism. KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) : Spain : Madrid : History : 20th century. KW - Literature and society : Spain : Madrid : History : 20th century. KW - Madrid (Spain) : Intellectual life : 20th century. KW - Littérature expérimentale : Espagne : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature et société : Espagne : Madrid : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : Spanish & Portuguese. KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Intellectual life KW - Literature and society KW - Literature, Experimental KW - Spain KW - Spain : Madrid KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -