Modernism as a continuing process. Modernist irony in Spanish-language modernism Cover Image

Modernizm jako konstytuujący się proces. Ironia modernistyczna na przykładzie modernizmu hiszpańskojęzycznego
Modernism as a continuing process. Modernist irony in Spanish-language modernism

Author(s): Agnieszka Kłosińska-Nachin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the presence of modernist irony, which is defined as a characteristic attitude to symbolism in Spanish modernism. This topic is an answer to dual understanding of the turn of the 19th and 20th century in Spanish literature (modernism, Generation ‘98), which is an expres- sion of the excessive attachment to critical moments in analyzing the evolution of Spanish litera- ture. The author shows the validity of the category proposed, analyzing the novels Sangre patricia by Díaz Rodríguez and Amor y pedagogía by Miguel de Unamuno, as well as referring to poetry and painting of the Spanish cultural area. She also points to the social conditioning of modernist irony. The presence of this category in Unamuno’s output challenges the traditional categorization of the historico-literary process of Spanish modernism.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 63-79
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish