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Romancero Gitano: By Frederico García Lorca

Romancero Gitano: By Frederico García Lorca

Ramsden, Herbert
Lorca, Federico Garcia

Hardcover

Series: Hispanic Texts

Fiction AnthologiesPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0719078253
ISBN13: 9780719078255
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.17 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Lorca is one of the outstanding poets of Spanish literature, and apart perhaps from his trilogy of stage tragedies, Romancero gitano is his most celebrated work: innovative, sophisticated, difficult and uniquely popular. Partly, no doubt, it is the appeal of his gypsies, childlike and magical, oppressed by the world around; partly too, the work's elemental concerns: machismo, honor, sex, betrayal, revenge, bloodshed, death; partly also, the many echoes of Andalusian popular culture: horsemen and smugglers, fiestas and local saints, legends and superstitions, ballads and deep song. By its dramatic dynamism, its subtle stylisation and its mythical stature, Romancero gitano is one of the most appealing books of poetry in Spanish literature--but it is also one of the most difficult. In his introduction to this edition for English-speaking students, Ramsden considers briefly Lorca's Double break with the past and then concentrates on the Romancero gitano itself, with emphasis on the interplay of immediate appeal and wider resonances. An annotated select bibliography and select glossary are provided with explanatory end notes offering practical guidance, both linguistic and interpretative.

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