Descripcion y ekfrasis en la prosa de Ramon Gomez de la Serna.
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Title
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Descripcion y ekfrasis en la prosa de Ramon Gomez de la Serna.
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Identifier
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AAI9917666
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identifier
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9917666
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Creator
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Klohe, Carmen Fernandez.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Gerardo Pina Rosales
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Date
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1999
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance | Fine Arts
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Abstract
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Ramon Gomez de la Serna is remembered mostly for his extravagant personality and as the inventor of the gregueria. Because of the lack of explicit ideological content in his work, as well as for other, extra-literary reasons, his work has been labeled irrelevant and relegated to semi-oblivion. However, Gomez de la Serna played a very important role in the artistic revolution of the early century. In the 1920's, he was the de facto spokesman for the artistic vanguard in Spain. A driving desire to break with the old aesthetic, along with a keen sensibility for everything modern, allowed him to become the champion of all the new movements, both in literature and in the arts.;Little attention has been paid to the many ways in which Gomez de la Serna's literature is linked to the visual arts. His life long interest in the arts had a pervasive influence in his work, where one can find numerous examples of the different uses of the arts in literature. From the mere description of an iconic object, to his exceptional biographies of artists, the author's writing seems to be driven by the ekfrastic impulse.;At the core of Gomez de la Serna's style is the metaphoric description of things. He presents everyday things from an idiosincratic perspective and in a dynamic style that transform them into aesthetic objects. The description of works of art is undertaken in the same manner, thereby becoming---through the evocative powers of his forceful language---original creations in themselves.;The concept of the interrelations between literature and the visual arts is central to Gomez de la Serna's writings. A study of the uses of descriptio and ekphrasis in this prose yield generous proof of the author's ability to use his vibrant, dynamic language to force the limits of the medium with extraordinary results. This ekfrastic facet of ramonismo, previously ignored by the critics, may be one of the most important aspects of a body of work which is, in itself, a chronicle of the artistic developments of the beginning of the century.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
