Search for beauty and harmony in Hispano-American modernism Cover Image

Hledání krásy a harmonie v hispanoamerickém modernismu
Search for beauty and harmony in Hispano-American modernism

Author(s): Dora Poláková
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: Modernism; renewal; Darío; beauty; harmony; rhythm; avant-garde;

Summary/Abstract: Hispano-American modernism, the period of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, brings abouta major renewal of literary creation, which allows a self-confident and decisive input of this region’sliteratures into modernity. The article briefly examines the key moments of this renewal, based onthe search for beauty and harmony and the desire for a perfect rhythm of the language to reflect therhythm of the universe; it also points out the connection with the incoming avant-garde.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2019
  • Issue No: 60
  • Page Range: 89-97
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech