Titlebook: European Aestheticism and Spanish American Modernismo; Artist Protagonists Kelly Comfort Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmi

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The Artist as Dandy-Flâneur: The World as Art in Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Julián del Casal who fit the mold. Aside from José Fernández, the main character of José Asunción Silva’s only novel . (., written in 1896, first published posthumously in 1925),. there really are not any obvious protagonists on par with European literary heroes such as Huysmans’s Des Esseintes or Wilde’s Lord Henr

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Conclusion: Reconsidering the Relationship between Art and Life, Form and Content, Poetry and Prosention Baudelaire, and to a lesser degree Gutiérrez Nájera) were known primarily as poets, it is indeed significant that I have chosen examples from their prose works. I wish to dedicate this concluding chapter to a discussion of some of the justifications for this decision as well as the varying con

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Introduction: Redefining the Role of Art and the Artist at the Turn of the Centuryosmopolitan street, which he describes as a “moving chaos in which death comes galloping toward you from all sides at once.” Not having “the courage” to pick up the halo from the muddy road, the poet decides “that it would be less disagreeable to lose [his] insignia than to break [his] bones.” Yet r

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The Artist as Critic and Liar: The Unreal and Amoral as Art in Oscar Wildeand places great importance on the powerful effect of art on the receptor. A close analysis of “The Critic as Artist” and “The Decay of Lying” reveals the ways in which Wilde lives up to the titles of his essays as well as their proposed methodology: he, or each of his main characters, is the critic

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The Artist as Creator Not Producer: The Unsold and Unappreciated as Art in Rubén Daríomportant to establish from the outset that whereas Rubén Darío has been seen, in general, as Ricardo Szmetan rightly notes, “as a poet little attuned to man’s problems in his social environment,” the truth of the matter is that his short stories, especially those from ., “are evidence of the courage

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