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Hinduism In Animal De Fondo By Juan Ramón Jimenez, Christine Steffen

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Animal de fondo (1949), by Juan Ramón Jimenez, is an enigmatic and joyous recounting of a mystical trance which the poet experienced during a sea voyage from New York to Buenos Aires in 1948. This essay approaches the poems from the perspective of classic Hindu religious traditions. The conciencia frequently used by Juan Ramón to express integration with the natural world is analogous to Brahman, the all-pervading reality which for the Vedic poets includes everything from the life of man to sticks and stones. The apparent polytheism of Animal de fondo echoes Vedic hymns, which deify many important social and …

Review Essays, Various Authors

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Awareness and Amnesia: Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction, by Malcolm Bowie. Mary Lydon

The Modernist Novel in Spain. Transparent Simulacra: Spanish Fiction 1902-1906, by Robert Spires. Roberta Johnson

Staging the End of Individualism: Sloterdijk's Postmetaphysical Dramaturgy. Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism, by Peter Sloterdijk. Alan D. Schrift

Agostinho Neto: Pure Poetic Discourse And Mobilization Rhetoric, Janis L. Pallister

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Neto's importance in relationship to the modern genre we will call militant or guerilla poetry and his considerable poetic gifts as well call for a mainstreaming of his literary contributions. "Protest poetry" might more aptly describe his oeuvre; the term is certainly a somewhat better representation of his content than "guerilla poetry" or "poetry of combat." But whatever word is used to sum up that content, in the article on Neto one sees contextually how this talented poet fuses his ideologies with his structures, and intertextually how he avoids the diatribes, the invective and the stereotypically strident rhetoric of most …

Reviews Of Recent Publications, Various Authors

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, eds., Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, by John Barberet

Asunción Horno-Delgado, Eliana Ortega, Nina M. Scott, and Nancy Saporta Sternbach, eds., Breaking Boundaries: Latina Writing and Critical Readings, by Amy Kaminsky

Jonathan Culler, Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions, by Rosemarie Scullion

Wolfgang Iser, Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology, by Jane Riles Thomas

Colin Davis, Michel Tournier: Philosophy and Fiction, by Marja Warehine

Didier Coste, Narrative as Communication, by Armine Kotin Mortimer

Jean-Jacques Thomas, La Langue, la poésie. Essais sur la poésie française contemporaine, …