1st Edition

Gerardo Diego’s Creation Myth of Music Fábula de Equis y Zeda

By Judith Stallings-Ward Copyright 2020
212 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Since its publication nearly eight decades ago, the consensus among scholars about Fábula de Equis y Zeda, by the Spanish poet Gerardo Diego (1896-1987) remains unchanged: Fábula is an enigmatic avant-garde curiosity. It seems to rob the reader of the reason necessary to interpret it, even as it lures him or her ineluctably to the task; nevertheless, the present study makes the case that this work... Read more

Introduction

PART I Foundations of Diego’s Creation Myth

Chapter 1 Three Guiding Questions

Chapter 2 Theory and Criticism

Chapter 3 Manual de espumas as Incubator of Fábula

PART II Fábula de Equis y Zeda

Chapter 4 The Framework

Chapter 5 "Brindis"

Chapter 6 "Exposición"

Chapter 7 "Amor"

Chapter 8 "Desenlace"

Conclusion

Biography

Judith Stallings-Ward is Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Norwich University, where she currently serves as Spanish Program director. She received her PhD from Yale University. She specializes in twentieth-century Spanish poetry as well as Cervantes. She has published extensively on the Vermont poems of Federico García Lorca, the inter-art relations in the poetry of Gerardo Diego, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and the anarchism of Gandhi and Durruti.