“The Miserable Supper”: César Vallejo and the Poetics of Communion

This essay examines the image of the Eucharist in the poetry of the Peruvian writer César Vallejo (1892-1938). I argue that unlike his modernista forebears, Vallejo regularly employs the Eucharist not as an image of the ecstasy of sexual union, but instead as an image of guilt, melancholy, frustrati...

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Main Author: Glover, Adam (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2019
In: New blackfriars
Year: 2019, Volume: 100, Issue: 1085, Pages: 22-42
Further subjects:B Communion
B César Vallejo
B Poetics
B Eucharist
B Latin America
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