VILLAURRUTIA, XAVIER

hävēˈār vēˌyäoorooˈtyä, 1903–50, Mexican poet and playwright. Villaurrutia was deeply influenced by Ramón López Velarde. He worked on the Mexican literary review Contemporáneos (1928–31) and in 1928 founded the first experimental theater in Mexico. His poetic writing includes Reflejos (1926) and Nocturnos (1933). Villaurrutia's intense preoccupation with death permeates the poems in Nostalgia de la muerte (1938) and Décima muerte [tenth death] (1941); it is also the subject of his play Invitación a la muerte (1941). His most notable theatrical works are the short dramatic pieces, Autos profanos, included in Poesía y teatro completos (1953). Villaurrutia greatly influenced the work of younger Mexican poets, notably Alí Chumacero.

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Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture - Vol. 2
Book by Michael S. Werner; Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
Subjects: Mexico--Civilization--Encyclopedias
...Victoria, Guadalupe Victorio Vidaurri, Santiago Villa, Francisco Pancho Villagran Family Villaurrutia, Xavier Virgin of Guadalupe and Guadalupanismo Virgin of los Remedios Visual Arts: Mesoamerica Visual...
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Mexican Masculinities
Book by Robert McKee Irwin; University of Minnesota Press, 2003
Subjects: Homosexuality In Literature, Masculinity In Literature, Mexican Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Mexican Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, National Characteristics, Mexican, In Literature
...Minneapolis London Poetry by Xavier Villaurrutia is reprinted by permission...Is: The Queer Enigma of Xavier Villaurrutia, Reading and Writing the...Espejos de diferencia racial en Xavier Villaurrutia, Revista Iberoamericana...
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Dictionary of Latin American Theater
Book by Eladio Cortes, Mirta Barrea-Marlys; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Latin American Drama--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Theater--Latin America--Dictionaries
...Turrubiartes, Gerardo Vilalta, Maruxa Villaurrutia, Xavier Villegas, Oscar Nicaragua...de Rosas (A Victim of Rosas) (1845) by Francisco Xavier de Acha (1828-1888), Amor y patria (Love and Country...
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures
Book by George E. Haggerty, John Beynon, Douglas Eisner; Garland, 2000
Subjects: Gays--History, Gays--Social Life And Customs
...S. Literature U.S. Literature: Contemporary Gay Writing Van Vechten, Carl Verlaine, Paul Vidal, Gore Villaurrutia, Xavier Violet Quill Walpole, Horace White, Edmund White, Patrick Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Fingal OFlahertie...
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Marcel Proust and Spanish America: From Critical Response to Narrative Dialogue
Book by Herbert E. Craig; Bucknell University Press, 2002
Subjects: Latin American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Latin American Literature--French Influences, Proust, Marcel--1871-1922--Appreciation--Latin America, Proust, Marcel--1871-1922--Influence
...in the list of Mexican writers the absence of Xavier Villaurrutia, who also was fascinated by Proust. But, he made...discuss narrative texts by both Torres Bodet and Villaurrutia because of their connection with the Recherche...
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journal articles on: Villaurrutia Xavier  - 6 results

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The 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Jurors and Candidates
Journal article by William Riggan; World Literature Today, Vol. 70, 1996
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...honored with such prestigious awards as Mexicos Xavier Villaurrutia and Alfonso Reyes Prizes (1975, 1979), Venezuelas...Cecilia Vicufia, and Nostalgia for Death by Xavier Villaurrutia. In 1992 he was named the first recipient of...
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Julieta Campos and the Repeating Island
Journal article by Ann Marie Fallon; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 26, 2006
Subjects: Campos, Julieta--Works, Death by Water (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, La imagen en el espejo (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Muerte por agua (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Criticism and interpretation
...Reddish Hair and Her Name Is Sabina) which won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1974. The prestigious prize is awarded...The year Sabina was published, it won the coveted Xavier Villaurrutia Award for the best work of fiction published in...
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Antonieta Rivas Mercado: Katherine Anne Porter's Horror and Inspiration
Journal article by Darlene Harbour Unrue; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 47, 2005
Subjects: Mercado, Maria Antonieta Rivas--Works, Women authors--Biography, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Biography, Women writers--Works
...Economica, 1987. Rivas Mercado, Antonieta. and Xavier Villaurrutia. La escuela de las mujeres. Translation of LEcole...her Obras completas. (25.) Blair, 471. (26.) With Xavier Villaurrutia Antonieta translated Gides LEcole des femmes into...
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Oropesa, Salvador A. the Contemporaneos Group: Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties
Journal article by Lon Pearson; Chasqui, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects: The Contemporaneos Group: Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties (Libro)
...Gilberto Owen (1905-52), Salvador Novo (1904-74), Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-51), and Jorge Cuesta (1903-42). (Oropesa...Satiric Poetry; 4. Agustin Lazo (1896-1971): Xavier Villaurrutias Shadow; 5. Guadalupe Marin: The Madwoman in the...
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The 2000 Neustadt International Prize for Literature: Jurors & Candidates
Journal article by William Riggan; World Literature Today, Vol. 74, 2000
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes ( CNCA), and among the many honors which have come his way are the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (1975; normally accorded only to Mexican citizens), Mexicos Premio Nacional de la Critica (1992), the...
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In the Moment of the Word: The Late Mexican Author Salvador Elizondo Pursued Spontaneity in the Act of Writing Daring, Unorthodox Works
Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 58, July 2006
Subjects: Authors--Works, Elizondo, Salvador--Works, Writers--Works
...admiration of this unusual work. It won the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, the most prestigious literary award in Mexico...cultural brain trust. In addition to the Premio Villaurrutia, he won the prestigious Premio Nacional de Letras...
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Clash of Literary Titans
Magazine article by Jaime Perales Contreras; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 60, July 2008
Subjects: Neruda, Pablo--Criticism and interpretation, Neruda, Pablo--Works, Paz, Octavio--Criticism and interpretation, Paz, Octavio--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works
...Bergamin, who was an editor at Seneca, had assigned the task of compiling the anthology to two Mexican poets, Xavier Villaurrutia and Octavio Paz, and two Spanish poets, Emilio Prados and Juan .Gil Albert. Neruda was invited to contribute but...
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A Human Body of Books: A Passionate Seeker of Knowledge, Mexican Writer Margo Glantz Connects Lines between Critical Essays, Fiction, and Personal Histories
Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 55, July 2003
Subjects: Authors, Mexican--Attitudes, Glantz, Margo--Attitudes
...Prize in 1982. On the heels of that success, two years later she won Mexicos most prestigious literary award, the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, for Sindrome de naufragios Shipwreck Syndrome. "It was about physical disasters--hurricanes, floods, earthquakes...
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The Irishman Who Translated Mexican Poetry
Magazine article by Jaime Perales; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, January 2007
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel--Portrayals, Beckett, Samuel--Translations and translating, Paz, Octavio--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Translations and translating
...with this decision since there were a number of excellent living Mexican poets who could have been included, like Xavier Villaurrutia or Jose Gorostiza. Paz ended up selecting thirty-four names (though if he had bad his way, it would have only...
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Andres Henestrosa from Fables to Fame: This Self-Taught Mexican Writer Captures the Folktales and Lore of His Indigenous Heritage, Lifting Them to New Heights as Literary Works
Magazine article by Caleb Bach; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 57, March 2005
Subjects: Artists--Biography, Henestrosa, Andres--Works, Literature--Criticism and interpretation
...to Antonieta, which became a film directed by Carlos Saura. She took it upon herself to help young writers like Xavier Villaurrutia and Mariano Azuela, also painters, including Rodriguez Lozano and Julio Castellanos. She sensed I, too, was serious...
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encyclopedia articles on: Villaurrutia Xavier  - 2 results

 
 
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Villaurrutia, Xavier
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
VILLAURRUTIA, XAVIER have ar ve yaooroo tya, 1903 50, Mexican poet and playwright. Villaurrutia was deeply influenced by Ramon Lopez...Reflejos (1926) and Nocturnos (1933). Villaurrutias intense preoccupation with death permeates...
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LÓpez Velarde, RamÓn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...1888 1921, Mexican poet. One of the major poets of Mexico, he deeply influenced the work of later poets, notably Xavier Villaurrutia . Although his poetry sometimes shows the influence of modernismo , he was one of the first poets to rebel...


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