The Twilight of the Avant-Garde - 9781846311833

The Twilight of the Avant-GardeSpanish Poetry 19802000\nAuthor(s): Jonathan Mayhew\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781846311833, 978-1846311833\nSynopsis\nAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.\n\nTwilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry [tel] addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Jonathan Mayhew first offers a critical analysis of the called 'poetry of experience' of Luis Garca Montero, a tendency that is based on the supposed obsolescence of the modernist poetics of the first half of the century. While the 'poetry of experience' presents itself as a progressive attempt to 'normalise' poetry, to make it accessible to the common reader, Mayhew views it as a reactionary move that ultimately.