{"id":4805,"date":"2024-02-09T18:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/?post_type=books&#038;p=4805"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:36:52","slug":"morbidities-and-the-concept-of-the-new-literature","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/morbidities-and-the-concept-of-the-new-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Morbidities<\/em> and &#8220;The Concept of The New Literature&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ram\u00f3n G\u00f3mez de la Serna (1888-1963) was one of Spain\u2019s most gifted avant-gardists. Oftentimes remembered as the inventor of the <em>greguer\u00eda<\/em>\u2014a type of witty and humorous epigram that recasts the commonplace and absurdities of everyday reality\u2014he was a prolific writer and published dozens of novels, essays, short stories, articles, editorials, and biographies throughout his life. Two of his major works\u2014the autobiography <em>Morbidities<\/em> (1908), and the manifesto \u201cThe Concept of the New Literature\u201d (1909)\u2014belong to his earliest period of experimentation. These two early works are of singular importance not only in understanding his development as an avant-gardist, but also in analyzing Spanish literature within the broader framework of European avant-garde culture. With prescient clarity, they highlight many of the aesthetic notions that would revolutionize experimental literature throughout the modernist period. This book offers the first complete English translation of <em>Morbidities<\/em> and \u201cThe Concept of the New Literature,\u201d and it introduces anglophone readers to some of G\u00f3mez de la Serna\u2019s most passionate ideas about modernity and \u201cnew literature.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4806,"template":"","subject":[36,37],"browse_by_series":[45],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-4805","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-literature","subject-modernism","browse_by_series-modernist-constellations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4805\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}