The Routes of Modernity

by Andrew Bush

"In The Routes of Modernity Andrew Bush challenges and revises received notions of the origins and development of modern poetry in Spanish America. With comprehensive historical knowledge and theoretical sophistication, this book provides a new model of modernity in terms of an emerging historical consciousness and its vicissitudes, elaborated by reference to a cogently articulated philosophy of history and a psychoanalytic theory of mourning and melancholia.". "In a recanonization that surpasses the usual belletristic assumptions, Bush argues for the historical, literary, and social...