Matthew Fehskens

Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism

The Tragic Aesthetic of the Vates Poets. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 232 Seiten
EAN 9798765126783
Veröffentlicht 2. Oktober 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Beschreibung

A transatlantic study of Hispanic literary modernism's use of prophetic discourse as an attempt to counter modern nihilism and provide modernity with poetry as its new Scripture, a phenomenon developed in Spanish across nations, creeds, genders and literary traditions.

Portrait

Matthew Fehskens is Associate Professor of Spanish at East Tennessee State University, USA. He is a scholar of Hispanic modernism, a translator, and an author of short stories. Most recently he published From the Air to the Hand, an anthology of translated poems by Colombian poet Armando Romero (2021). His research focuses on the transnational and decolonial dimensions of literary modernism in Spanish, and he has published on travel literature, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the overlap of word and image in poetic self-portraits in modernismo.