Deastheticized Autonomous Art

Aesthetic Preoccupation and Social Criticism:

Divests itself of Schein effect (appearance of curing social ills, catharsis, but is an illusory effect) but retains distance from the real...

Preoccupied with its own form and brings to bear criticism of society's conditions...

What does this look like?
-Lorca and Poeta en NY (poetic theorizing is more implicit, explicit denouncements of dehumanizing modernized society in urban NY)
-Alberti and sus angeles (alienation of the modern subject), the form itself devolves from controlled/traditional Becquer to complete free verse
-Tirano Banderas

In TB, in 3 days during the celebration of Dia de los Muertos, in the time of caudalismo and its tradition of Tyrants back in the Roman tradition, is an overtly hostile to the reader text, formally very complex and very controlled in its system like a swiss watch, in Valle-Inclan code

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This scene in the middle is the fulcrum around which circles this story, it is the act in which the young boy dies, the young indigenous child who is eaten alive by wild pigs after he's left alone as the authorities have killed his father and taken away his mother
The system is a reflection too, so in the first scene of Act I and the final scene TB is in his tower