Octavio Paz: A Study of his Poetics
- Author: Jason Wilson
- Date Published: June 1979
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521295093
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Octavio Paz (1914–1998), the eminent Mexican poet and critic, attempted to evaluate the neglected role of poetry in the twentieth century in terms of a liberating, semi-religious vocation. Jason Wilson, in this study, approaches Paz's poetics through his close relationship with André Breton (1896–1966), the surrealist leader. This is a 'spiritual biography' of a poet-thinker (Paz); a study of a fertile relationship (Paz and Breton); a re-evaluation of surrealism itself and, finally, a coping with those acute problems that all poets and readers of poetry must face in an age lacking an acceptable cultural tradition: why write? What is a poem? Who are the genuine poets? Who am I? Wilson analyses Paz's reaction to these related concerns in the poet's examination of 'the values of poetry' in terms of a liberating poetics.
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- Date Published: June 1979
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521295093
- length: 204 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction, 1a. Octavio Paz and surrealism: attitude versus activity
1b. The Marquis de Sade, surrealism and Paz's 'El prisonero'
2. Mentalist poetics, the quest, fiesta and other motifs
3. The nature myth
4a. The East
4b. A reading of Paz's Le Singe grammairien
4c. A reading of 'Vuelta'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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