New Lenses For Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata [Paperback]

New Lenses for Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata examines the influence of science in the thought, creative process, writing, and drawing of Federico Garc?a Lorca. This book establishes the historical, cultural, and biographical context in which Lorca encountered scientists and their work, and studies the writing and drawing of scientists he came to know at the Residencia de estudiantes in Madrid. Several of Lorcas contemporaries who were also exploring sciences possibilities for their work in writing, art, and philosophy, including Jos? Ortega y Gasset, Salvador Dal?, and Gregorio Mara??n, are read alongside the poet.

By reading particular texts among Lorcas lectures, letters, poetry, theater, and drawings through the lens of the memoirs, lectures, and drawings of scientists such as Santiago Ram?n y Cajal and P?o del R?o-Hortega, a working poetics is established for each and comparisons are drawn. References to science in Lorcas work open a new reading of some of his texts. At the same time, Ram?n y Cajal and del R?o-Hortegas drawing and writing are analyzed as plastic and rhetorical works of art. The result is a study of the creative process in artist and scientist alike and their mutual influence.

Cecelia J. Cavanaugh, SSJ, is associate professor of Spanish and dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at Chestnut Hill College.This is a beautifully written, tightly argued exploration of the role of science in the work of Federico Garc?a Lorca, his poetry, prose, and drawings. Building on the work of Xon de Ros, Paul Julian Smith, Dennis Perri, and Candelas Gala, Cavanaugh (Chestnut Hill College) situates Garc?a Lorca within the historical and scientific context of his timelooking at his exposure to study of the human anatomy and physiology and his application of the ideas of Santiago Ram?n y Cajal and P?o del R?o-Hortega. In these the author discovered new ways to think about literary and pictorial art, and to develop l*