Federico García Lorca: A Study of His Plays and Poetry as They Reflect the Struggle between the Traditional and the contemporary in Early Twentieth Century Andalusian Culture
Abstract
My interest in García Lorca began with an appreciation
of his poetry which grew as I visited and learned about his
Andalusia and further heightened as I read his dramas. This
paper has afforded me many trying moments, as I battled with
some ridiculously inferior translations (which taught me
why Lorca has never achieved the same measure of popularity
outside of Spanish-speaking countries as he has within them)
and a growing wealth of information, much of which was interesting
but irrelevant to my topic.