Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index
Antonio Machado (1875-1939) is one of Spain's most original and renowned twentieth-century poets and thinkers. In The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado's "Proverbios y cantares," Nicolás Fernández-Medina shows how Machado's poetry and philosophy combine in the folkloric poetry of the "Proverbios y cantares" to critique Spain's cultural milieu during the first decades of the twentieth century. More specifically, Fernández-Medina shows how the "Proverbios y cantares" reveal an important aspect of the poet's concept of Other
Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beyond the Lyrical and the Proverbial: Antonio Machado'sPoetic Thinking; The Problem of Subjectivity: How to Know theSelf and Other; Towards Conceiving the Other: The FormativeYears; From Art to Life: Critical Inquiries and a NewPoetry; The God of Intersubjectivity; The Double Bind of Knowledge and Ignorance; Conclusion; Works Cited; Notes; Index
