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7 nov 2008

The last time I gave a seminar at the Hall Center for the Humanities it became a [soon-to-be] best selling book published by the University of Chicago Press. So you you won't want to miss this one. You can download the paper. The top secret password is "philandlit."

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Anónimo dijo...: I'll try to come your seminar at the Hall Center. Your new book on the avant garde also looks interesting.; 3:50 p. m.
John dijo...: Terrific, highly stimulating essay. Thanks -- I'd love to see it turn into a book!

Don't know if you'd be interested, but I wrote (very briefly) on the erotics of consonants a few years ago. Should have connected it to the Barthes (which I had read, more than once, as I had the Lorca too), but didn't consciously think of it.
http://utopianturtletop.blogspot.com/2005/08/scansion-and-erotics-of-consonants-in.html

Couldn't agree more that duende is un-transferable into English. Thank you! I'm not even sure that it's transferable out of cante at all, but as some cante practitioners appeared to want to apply it to Bach, I'm really in no position to object.

Thanks again.; 11:53 p. m.
Jonathan dijo...: Thanks for reading it and for the comments. I'd love to see your take on the erotics of consonants. I'll take a look at it.; 8:46 a. m.

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Blurbs & Reviews

"Jonathan Mayhew’s new work belongs to a certain class of surprising books: those so obviously necessary once they appear that it apparently required a stroke of genius to come up with the idea for them."

--Daniel Katz

"Jonathan Mayhew's Lorca is less the distinctive Spanish poet, whose murder in 1936 marked the beginning of the Civil War, than he is an American invention. From the 1940s to the end of the century, our poets have invoked Lorca-in translation, of course-as a Romantic, exotic, radical, and, in many cases, gay icon-the poet of mystery and the duende. The Lorca myth, Mayhew argues persuasively, has enriched American lyric, but it has also been an obstacle to a more adequately grounded understanding of Spanish poetry in the 20th century. Apocryphal Lorca is revisionist criticism at its most acute."

-Marjorie Perloff

"Enhanced by copious notes and an excellent bibliography, this book offers a perceptive, intriguing assessment of the Garcia Lorca created by the postwar generation of American poets." (Choice )

"Mayhew is a critic who is at the top of his game; he combines a breadth of knowlege of the field with acute analysis."

--John C. Wilcox, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Let me just cut through all the usual, boring book review preliminaries and say the following thing: Jonathan Mayhew has, in Apocryphal Lorca, written an amazing book. "

--Brandon Holmquest, Calque

"The great merit of Mayhew's study is his sustained effort to document and interrogate Lorca's reception, unique among American encounters with foreign literatures in its nature and extent."

--Lawrence Venuti, TLS.

"Se trata de Jonathan Mayhew y su extraordinario estudio Apocryphal Lorca. Translation, Parody, Kitsch. Esta obra se ocupa no de García Lorca sino de cómo los escritores estadounidenses han reinventado a Lorca, desde Spicer y Rothenberg hasta O’Hara y Koch. Asimismo, es una discusión de la Deep Image —¡cuánto hay que desmenuzar de ese capítulo!— y la manera en que la poética norteamericana se ha apropiado de lo lorqueano (o lorcaesco) y del concepto de lo 'otro' que éste representa. Éste es un libro repleto de sutilezas, de tesis, apuntes, datos."

--Heriberto Yépez

"Apocryphal Lorca, sin embargo, es mucho más que un estudio de las vidas posteriores de Lorca en la poesía americana entre principios de los años 50 y 70. También ofrece un acercamiento histórico a la traducción de su obra, descubriendo reseñas de prensa significativas y discurriendo acerca de reconocimientos críticos. El texto es elegante y fresco; el análisis amplio e históricamente específico."

--María Delgado, Revista de Literatura

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