Revista de Occidente

Revista de Occidente
CategoriesCultural magazine
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherJose Ortega y Gasset Foundation
FounderJose Ortega y Gasset
Founded1923
CountrySpain
Based inMadrid
LanguageSpanish
WebsiteRevista de Occidente
ISSN0034-8635
OCLC6407611

Revista de Occidente (Spanish: Magazine of the West) is a cultural magazine which has been in circulation since 1923 with some interruptions. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is known for its founder, José Ortega y Gasset, a Spanish philosopher.

History and profile

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Revista de Occidente was established by José Ortega y Gasset in 1923.[1][2] Initially its publisher was a company with the same name which was also founded by Gasset.[3] The magazine is published by the Madrid-based Jose Ortega y Gasset Foundation on a monthly basis.[1][4]

From 1923 to 1936 the editor of Revista de Occidente was José Martínez Ruiz.[5] During this period the major contributors were Rosa Chacel,[6] Ramiro Ledesma[7] and Federico García Lorca.[8] Spanish novelist Benjamín Jarnés also published articles in the magazine.[9] One of the frequent topics which the magazine covered in its early period was the idea of Europe, and it became a transnational platform where this idea was discussed.[10]

Through Revista de Occidente José Ortega y Gasset laid the foundations of his approach on modernism.[11] Revista de Occidente was instrumental in making his modernist approach well-known across the world.[2] The magazine also featured articles on the acceptance of modernism in Spain.[12]

Revista de Occidente provided a platform for the young avant-garde artists and writers belonging to the Generation of '27, including Maruja Mallo.[12] Federico García Lorca first published some of his poems in Revista de Occidente.[3] Victoria Ocampo published the first article in Spanish on Virginia Woolf and her book entitled A Room of One’s Own in the magazine in 1934.[13] Max Aub's novel Geografía was first serialized in the magazine in 1927.[2]

Revista de Occidente did not only published literary work, but also covered articles about many distinct disciplines, including paleontology.[8] It played a significant role in introducing the views of the German philosopher Oswald Spengler in Spain from 1924.[14] In the early 1930s it adopted a liberal political stance.[15]

Revista de Occidente ceased publication in 1936 when the civil war began and also, its contributor Federico García Lorca died.[8] After a long hiatus the magazine was restarted in 1963.[1] It was not published in the period 1977–1980.[1] It was relaunched by Soledad Ortega Spottorno, daughter of José Ortega y Gasset, in 1980.[1] It mostly features articles on humanities and social sciences as well as interviews.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Revista de Occidente" (in Spanish). Dialnet. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Jessica Berman (2012). Modernist Commitments. Ethics, Politics, and Transnational Modernism. New York; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. pp. 186, 195. ISBN 9780231520393.
  3. ^ a b "Ortega y Gasset, Jose". Universo Lorca. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Revista de Occidente". Index Copernicus. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  5. ^ "Revista de Occidente. Spanish periodical". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  6. ^ Germán Bleiberg; Maureen Ihrie; Janet Pérez, eds. (1993). Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Vol. 1. Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press. p. 399. ISBN 978-0-313-28731-2.
  7. ^ Stanley G. Payne (1999). Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977. Madison, WI; London: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-299-16564-2.
  8. ^ a b c Anna Eva Hiller (Spring 2010). Science and Literary Culture during Spain's Edad de Plata (1923–1936) (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. p. 26.
  9. ^ Vanessa Fernandez (2013). A Transatlantic Dialogue: Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and the Literary Magazines that Bridged the Atlantic (1920-1930) (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. p. 3.
  10. ^ Marjet Brolsma; Lies Wijnterp (2018). "'Just Read my Magazine!' Periodicals as European Spaces in the Twentieth Century". Periodicals as European Spaces. 3 (2): 1. doi:10.21825/jeps.v3i2.9714. hdl:11245.1/e9815906-7cf2-42d8-87c0-0bd1da23f6bd.
  11. ^ Jason Harding (November 2015). "European Avant-Garde Coteries and the Modernist Magazine". Modernism/modernity. 22 (4): 814. doi:10.1353/mod.2015.0063. S2CID 147574666.
  12. ^ a b Estrella de Diego; Jaime Brihuega (Spring 1993). "Art and Politics in Spain, 1928-36". Art Journal. 52 (1): 56. doi:10.1080/00043249.1993.10791495.
  13. ^ Laura Ma Lojo-Rodriguez (2016). "Woolf in Hispanic Countries Buenos Aires and Madrid". In Jessica Berman (ed.). A Companion to Virginia Woolf. Malden, MA; Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 468. doi:10.1002/9781118457917.ch33. ISBN 9781118457917.
  14. ^ Carl Antonius Lemke Duque (2021). "'Fervent spenglerians:' romanising the historic morphology of cultures in Spain (1922–1938)". History of European Ideas. 48 (5): 595–596. doi:10.1080/01916599.2021.1953562.
  15. ^ María Luz Arroyo Vázquez (2005). "European views of the New Deal: The case of Spain". Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 3 (2): 218. doi:10.1080/14794010608656827. S2CID 189946599.
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