John McCulloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 11086155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John McCulloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | McCulloch |
| SIGNATURE | MCCULLOCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Bulletin of Spanish Studies Trust, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reading the Text As a Socially Symbolic Act
This article examines a selection of poems from Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York (1929), to consider the ideology that underpins it. Drawing on Fredric Jameson’s idea of the ‘political unconscious’, whereby every text can be read as a socially ‘symbolic act’, the author will argue that the poetic subject in Lorca’s New York poetry gives voice to a crisis of bourgeois selfhood, which is set against the backdrop of economic collapse and …
Ideology and Aesthetics in Cernuda's Un río, un Amor (1929)
Luis Cernuda's poetic work has usually been divided into two main periods: the non-political poetry written prior to 1930, and the more heavily politicized poetry that was critical of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship thereafter. However, drawing on the work of Fredric Jameson, this article attempts to provide a ‘political’ reading of Luis Cernuda's landmark work of Un río, un amor (1929). Jameson argues that all literature is political, in the se…
The double death of the author
Federico García Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York continues to elicit considerable critical interest. Because of its avant-garde experimentation, it resists all reductive readings and lends itself to a plethora of interpretations on the part of critics and readers who appropriate Lorca for certain ends. My article shows that this process of appropriation is nothing new. In 1945, the Falangist philologist Joaquín de Entrambasaguas, writing during the ea…
Je vous souhaite d'être follement aimée’
A woman I had loved for a long time, and a woman I shall call Aurelia, was lost to me. (Gerard de Nerval) Being no longer controlled by the powerful impulses of ‘common sense’ and the ‘normal’, the
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Je vous souhaite d'être follement aimée’
A woman I had loved for a long time, and a woman I shall call Aurelia, was lost to me. (Gerard de Nerval) Being no longer controlled by the powerful impulses of ‘common sense’ and the ‘normal’, the
The double death of the author
Federico García Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York continues to elicit considerable critical interest. Because of its avant-garde experimentation, it resists all reductive readings and lends itself to a plethora of interpretations on the part of critics and readers who appropriate Lorca for certain ends. My article shows that this process of appropriation is nothing new. In 1945, the Falangist philologist Joaquín de Entrambasaguas, writing during the ea…
Ideology and Aesthetics in Cernuda's Un río, un Amor (1929)
Luis Cernuda's poetic work has usually been divided into two main periods: the non-political poetry written prior to 1930, and the more heavily politicized poetry that was critical of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship thereafter. However, drawing on the work of Fredric Jameson, this article attempts to provide a ‘political’ reading of Luis Cernuda's landmark work of Un río, un amor (1929). Jameson argues that all literature is political, in the se…
Reading the Text As a Socially Symbolic Act
This article examines a selection of poems from Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York (1929), to consider the ideology that underpins it. Drawing on Fredric Jameson’s idea of the ‘political unconscious’, whereby every text can be read as a socially ‘symbolic act’, the author will argue that the poetic subject in Lorca’s New York poetry gives voice to a crisis of bourgeois selfhood, which is set against the backdrop of economic collapse and …
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