Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish Poetry

Introduction to the special issu

Intertextuality and Subversion: Poems by Ana Rossetti and Amparo Amorós

In the last two decades, a number of Spanish women poets have written very significant works which use intertextuality to lead their readers into new perspectives and attitudes toward literary and social conventions. By examining two texts by Rossetti and Amorós that use intertexts to undermine, respectively, traditional carpe diem poetry and sexually allusive verse of different kinds, the article suggests that they reflect new, post-modern literary currents

Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish Poetry

Introduction to the special issu