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Film, Video Octavio Paz Symposium

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Title

  • Octavio Paz Symposium

Summary

  • Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was a world-famous poet, writer and essayist. His writing, which garnered him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990, has been characterized as impassioned and marked with sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity. A two-hour symposium, "A Tribute to Octavio Paz," was sponsored by the Library's Hispanic Division and the Poetry Office, in cooperation with the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C. Featured speakers include distinguished writers and scholars Enrico Mario Santi of the University of Kentucky, Yvon Grenier of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and Consuelo Hernandez of American University. Santi will provided an overview of the various stages and characteristics of Paz's unique literary style. Grenier discussed Paz's vision of politics and literature, the close relationship between modern intellectuals or "hommes de lettres" and political liberalism. Hernandez presented a talk about nature and the universe in Paz's poetry and his vision of language.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Hispanic Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-05-23.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Literature
  • -  Poetry
  • -  Performing Arts, Music

Notes

  • -  Classification: Fine Arts.
  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Consuelo Hernandez, Enrico Mario Santi, Yvon Grenier.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-05-23.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687971

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. Octavio Paz Symposium. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-23, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687971/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division, S. B. (2008) Octavio Paz Symposium. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-23. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687971/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. Octavio Paz Symposium. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-23, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687971/>.