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Article: The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design. By GERARD ACHING. (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. vii + 183 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]; $49.95.
A century after modernismo flourished as a fin-de-siecle phenomenon (both philosophical and literary), this so-called quintessentially Spanish-American movement continues to intrigue the critics. The tendency in the modernismo debate has been to stress the escapist detachment of the ivory tower poets, concerned with Art for Art's sake, who owe a great debt to the European masters, especially French symbolists and parnassians. This ...