The dissonant legacy of modernismo

by Gwen Kirkpatrick

In The Dissonant Legacy of MODERNISMO, Gwen Kirkpatrick offers a provocative new reading of a crucial and often misunderstood period of Spanish American literature. Most studies of modernismo have focused on the poetry of Rubén Darío and have noted the movement's aestheticism, distance from mundane concerns, and its unmistakable French influences. Kirkpatrick concentrates instead on important negations of harmony and the movement's internal dismantling of its own precepts. Major contradictions within the movement itself are revealed through the works of the Argentine Leopoldo Lugones and...

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