Creative Cognition and the Cultural Panorama of Twentieth-Century Spain

Candelas Gala is the Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University, USA.

• Introduction 1. Creative Convulsion: José María Hinojosa and La flor de Californía 2. Creative Dialectics: José Moreno Villa and Jacinta la pelirroja 3. Creative Measurements: Plastic-Dynamic Development in Maruja Mallo's Naturalezas vivas 4. Creative Beatitude: Jorge Guillén and Baruch Spinoza 5. Creative Quietude. A Transdisciplinary Encounter: Clara Janés, Eduardo Chillida, and María Zambrano 6. Creative Artifacts: Agustín Fernández Mallo's Post-Poetry Proposal (sharing thoughts with Wittgenstein) Closing Remarks

“Candelas Gala, Charles E. Taylor Professor of Romance Languages at Wake Forest University, offers in this book a new instance of her long research engagement with the connections between twentieth century Spanish poetry, art, and science. … Gala’s book is a powerful reminder, in these dire times of the dismissal of the humanities, that art is a unique and irreplaceable form of knowledge.” (Juan Herrero-Senés, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, newprairiepress.org, June, 2017)