Selected Prose and Prose-Poems

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Selected Prose and Prose-Poems by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott, University of Texas Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Gabriela Mistral, Stephen Tapscott ISBN: 9780292778597
Publisher: University of Texas Press Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: University of Texas Press Language: English
Author: Gabriela Mistral, Stephen Tapscott
ISBN: 9780292778597
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication: January 1, 2010
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Language: English

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. It's a book that will be eye-opening and informative to the general reader as well as to students of gender studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry.This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. The pieces are grouped into four sections. "Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth" includes fifteen of Mistral's most accessible prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación / Desolation [1922]" presents all the prose from Mistral's first important book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. "Literary Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'" collects pieces that reveal Mistral's opinions on a wide range of subjects, including the practice of teaching; the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda; Mistral's own writing practices; and her social beliefs. Editor/translator Stephen Tapscott rounds out the volume with a chronology of Mistral's life and a brief introduction to her career and prose.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary modernism in a tradition that runs from Baudelaire, the North American moderns, and the South American postmodernistas. It's a book that will be eye-opening and informative to the general reader as well as to students of gender studies, cultural studies, literary history, and poetry.This Spanish-English bilingual volume gathers the most famous and representative prose writings of Gabriela Mistral, which have not been as readily available to English-only readers as her poetry. The pieces are grouped into four sections. "Fables, Elegies, and Things of the Earth" includes fifteen of Mistral's most accessible prose-poems. "Prose and Prose-Poems from Desolación / Desolation [1922]" presents all the prose from Mistral's first important book. "Lyrical Biographies" are Mistral's poetic meditations on Saint Francis and Sor Juana de la Cruz. "Literary Essays, Journalism, 'Messages'" collects pieces that reveal Mistral's opinions on a wide range of subjects, including the practice of teaching; the writers Alfonso Reyes, Alfonsina Storni, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Pablo Neruda; Mistral's own writing practices; and her social beliefs. Editor/translator Stephen Tapscott rounds out the volume with a chronology of Mistral's life and a brief introduction to her career and prose.

More books from University of Texas Press

Cover of the book Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Texas Furniture, Volume Two by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Leon Uris by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Sport and Political Ideology by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Texian Iliad by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book The Spanish Element in Texas Water Law by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book The Dialogic Imagination by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Defending the Land of the Jaguar by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Men in a Developing Society by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Evo's Bolivia by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Worse Than Death by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Conquest of the New Word by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
Cover of the book Mojo Hand by Gabriela  Mistral, Stephen  Tapscott
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy