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The Poetry of Luis Cernuda: Order in a World of Chaos »

Authors: Neil C. McKinlay
ISBN-13: 9781855660632, ISBN-10: 1855660636
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: August 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

A study of the work of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963).

	Acknowledgements
1	The Crisis of Faith	1
2	Order into Chaos: The Loss of the Absolute	8
	Luis Cernuda: Poet of Eros, Ethics or Crisis of Faith?	8
	The Age of Order	15
	The Loss of Order	23
	The Consequences of the Loss of Order	31
3	Search for Absolute Order	44
	The Reasons for Searching	44
	The Goal of the Search	54
	The Process of Searching	62
	The Result of the Search	71
4	Search for Order in the Material World I: 'Love'	77
	The Sexual Awakening	77
	The Experience of 'Love'	88
	The Purpose of 'Love'	106
5	Search for Order in the Material World II: Art	124
Sect. A	The Theory of Art	124
Sect. B	The Practice of Art	140
	The Disintegration of Meaning: The Advent of Literary Chaos?	140
	The Reintegration of Meaning: The Triumph of Literary Order?	153
	Synthesis: Chaotic Order and Ordered Chaos	167
	Conclusion	173
	List of Works Consulted	175
	Index	181