The Modern Times of José Rivas Panedas’s Ultraísmo

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  • Zachary Rockwell Ludington University of Maine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v43i2.4655

Abstract

This essay studies select poems by the Spanish ultraísta José Rivas Panedas to offer a new perspective on the avant-garde and its raison d’être. Though the rural elements in some of Rivas’s texts might seem foreign to the most radical avant-garde’s technophilic renewal project, I argue that Rivas’s fascination with both the cosmopolitan café and with roosters at daybreak is evidence of the avant-garde’s constitutive paradox, a temporal paradox. In doing so, I defend a renewed practice of close reading with reference to recent critics of the methodology of literary studies like Franco Moretti and Rita Felski.

Author Biography

Zachary Rockwell Ludington, University of Maine

Assistant Professor of Spanish. Department of Modern Languages & Classics. University of Maine

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2020-04-19

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