Lorca’s Legacy

Jonathan Mayhew graduated from the University of California, Davis, in 1981 and received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford in 1988. He has taught at the University of Kansas since 1996, after receiving tenure at the Ohio State University. Professor Mayhew is the author of four books on modern and contemporary peninsular poetry: Claudio Rodríguez and the Language of Poetic Vision (Bucknell, 1990), The Poetics of Self-Consciousness: Twentieth Century Spanish Poetry (Bucknell, 1994), Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch, (Chicago, 2009), and The Twilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 (Liverpool, 2009). His numerous articles, translations, and reviews have appeared in PMLA, Diacritics, Hispanic Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, The Nation, Revista de Libros, Insula, MLN, and elsewhere. In 2012, his achievements in scholarship were recognized by the awarding of the Higuchi prize. He lectures frequently in Spain.

• Contents: Acknowledgments PrefaceChapter 1: Hermeneutical Introduction Chapter 2: What Lorca Knew Chapter 3: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Poetics of Cultural Exceptionalism Chapter 4: The Grain of the Voice: Poetry and Performance Chapter 5: An Anatomy of Influence: Lorca in Contemporary Spanish PoetryChapter 6: New York Variations: O’Hara, Motherwell, StrayhornChapter 7: Federico on the American Stage (from Prometheus in Granada to Barbarous Nights) Chapter 8: Sexual Epistemologies: the Whitman Ode Chapter 9: The Lorca Myth Bibliography