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The numerous ways in which fiction intertwins with reality is one of the cardinals points in Javier Marías' literary work. Precisely, the purpose of this paper is to study this face of Javier Marías' work based on Todas las almas and Negra espalda del tiempo, especifically, since the making of the latter steamed from the reception of the former. Regarding that matter, the suspicion towards the nineteenth-century realism that appears in Negra espalda del tiempo will also be analyzed, while the connection with Juan Benet's theory of the novel will also be addressed, therefore there will also appear a first outline of a theory of novel by Javier Marias, in which the notion of style linked to thought plays a central role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the poetry of the Uruguayan writer Cristina Peri Rossi from the perspective of classical reception. Through a textual analysis, we reflect on her conceptions of the relationship between language and identity, the weight of tradition as inheritance and the woman or lesbian identity as a key to understand the resignification of tradition. Three thematic examples of reception will be addressed: the topics of love, the theme of the journey and the founding myth or the genesis of sex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the poetic of Valeria Luiselli's Los niños perdidos. The text, which is subtitled «Un ensayo en treinta preguntas», is actually a hybrid form made of essay and fiction. Three elements are key to its structure: the voice of the narrator, a series of questions from an immigration questionnaire, and the different answers that the «niños perdidos» offer to it. In addition, due to its hybrid layout, the mobile development of its writng and its presentation of the political refugee crisis as an intersection of statements, Los niños perdidos can be understood as a reflection of the Postmodern thought that that signals the delegitimization of metanarratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will analyze some fundamental issues to undertake the edition and translation into Spanish of the Renaissance treatise Gli Asolani by Pietro Bembo, according to a gender perspective. We will consider the history of the different redactions of this Renaissance work and the influence that the author's biography had on its development. We will also review the only existing Spanish translation of Gli Asolani and take into account the main contributions that have so far revealed the role played by female figures in the treatise, analyzing the most significant fragments of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the links between the poetic word and the Spectral music. For this purpose we will rely ‐among other approaches‐ on Eugenio Trías’ philosophy of the limit, on Giorgio Agamben’s idea of dýnamis, as well as on Jordi Pons’ research about the organic form in Webern’s music. As axis point of these pages, in relation with a specific musical model, we will base our study on the Spectral music theoretical fundaments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1962 John Cage travelled to Japan, where he visited Ryoanji's famous Zen garden in Kyoto. There arises a keen interest in the celebrated garden, thus building a lifelong relationship based on mutual influence. The creative significance of such a connection has been widely discussed in the fields of art and music. However, it also urgently needs to be analyzed from an aestheticontological perspective, focused particularly on the destruction of the ego as a basis for the psychological development of "I". In this context, the present paper argues that Cage's fascination for Ryoanji goes well beyond mere aesthetic affinities or methodological principles, such as chance and automatism. More specifically, it takes root in the dissolution of the 'I'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we are going to develop a series of critical concepts from Octavio Paz's essay works, specifically, those of analogy and irony, of clearly romantic and symbolist roots, and meta-irony, particularly conceptualized by the author to explain an aesthetic phenomenon of the Avant-garde. However, we will not devote ourselves to all the artists who renewed the forms of cultural creation at the beginning of the 20th century, but we will stop at the early work of a figure that was specially interesting to Octavio Paz: Marcel Duchamp. In this way, we are going to explain the evolution and application of these concepts through different reflections and authors of interest. We will observe that at the bottom of these reflections are found the keys of poetic modernity as understood by the Mexican poet, and that it manifested itself in a cultural trajectory that culminated or reached fullness, precisely, with Duchamp's works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies two of the best-known exponents of the Eastern and Western literary epic, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Iliad, in order to analyze the models of masculinity these two texts present and reproduce through their heroes. Before analyzing these models, this essay first studies the points these two texts share in order to highlight the main characteristics of what could be understood as the "international epic". Subsequently, by focusing on the ideas of French philosopher Louis Althusser on the capacity of the State to produce desirable identities by making use of the Ideological State Apparatuses, this paper will explore the ways in which both epic texts reproduce desirable forms of being in the world for people to consume and assimilate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to explore, regarding to the statutes of the postmodern paradigm, the relationships among ethics and aesthetics in Santo remedio, by the Uruguayan Rafael Courtoisie. From this approach, it is analysed the imbrication between the narrative mechanisms and the particular sight from the reality displayed on the text. To this end, this paper works with concepts as 'neonarcissism', 'absurdity', 'simulacrum' and 'moral-indifferent' in order to offer a reading from a look directed to the main character and to defend, despite the prevailing banality, an ethical reenchantment of postmodern aesthetics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This corpus-based analysis aims at furthering the studies on epistemic markers in Spanish with a special focus on two of the latter forms which have been incorporated to this paradigm: igual and lo mismo. For our purposes, two historical corpora have been used, namely CORDE and CREA as they allow a diachronic overview of the forms under analysis and the identification of the context in which these formulas could have developed their current epistemic value. This is to be found in the comparative structures in which both formulas could appear: when one of the two terms in the comparison is omitted, the epistemic value emerges. Likewise, the data also reveal a clear tendency to use both formulas with verbs in the indicative mood, a feature which distinguishes igual and lo mismo from other epistemic markers like quizá(s) or tal vez, which favored the use of the subjunctive. Grammaticalization is used as the theoretical frame to approach the change undergone by the selected items. The study closes with a contrastive analysis of the various markers discussed throughout the paper in present-day oral Spanish as shown in CORPES. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The historical linguistic studies constitute a necessary complement to reconstruct the metrics of the verses in their specific context. There are several theoretical perspectives to understand the metrical nature of the alejandrino verse, from those based in the syllabic regularity, in the frame of a medieval school, until those who take into consideration the heterometry documented in the manuscripts. From this perspective, the current paper has the aim to analyze each one of its main points from an integral philological perspective, which takes into consideration the metrics, as well as the underlying linguistic component, related to its history. In order to achieve this point, it is going to be taken a corpus of the most representative texts of the mester de clerecía written during the 13th and the 14th century (from the Libro de Alexandre until the Rimado de Palacio) to clarify the changes of this verse from the basis developed in the History of Language researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the construction of ethnic identity through the language - and particularly the relationship between speaking Spanish and being Hispanic- in a group of second-generation Spanish speakers. We recognise the simultaneous affirmation of the speakers' multiple social identities and propose that the identity can be plural and hybrid; an identity that can be (re)constructed and negotiated linguistically through discourse in situated interactions, and in opposition to the cultural essentialism that associates identity with stable and homogeneous characteristics. Three second-generation Spanish speakers were interviewed as part of an exploratory study. The corpus of the interviews conducted, which used a semi-structured script with open-ended questions, has been analysed by method of thematic analysis from a social identity theory perspective. The preliminary results showed that the speakers' discursive behaviour becomes a negotiating tool between the use of language and communicative intentions regarding their identity positioning to themselves and to others. The study conducted allowed to obtain information on the use of different linguistic systems and code switching as tools used purposefully to index multiple cultural and ethnic identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on Jesús Carrasco's debut novel, Out in the Open. Starting from the figures on global sales and the novel's critical reception, some questions are asked about the transmission of a novel in the global era. Text analysis of the syntactic units and semantic values are used to assess the novel's wide acceptance. The conclusion reached is that Out in the Open is a cultural asset that enters the modes of exchange which are characteristic of globalization. In addition, the novel responds to a horizon of complex expectations. The discourse of the novel brings together a drama of pursuit, a tale of learning and a transnational cultural point of reference. This richness makes a plural reading possible, which goes beyond the Spanish context of the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to provide a historical sojourn from the origin to the present-day state of the surviving Spanish-based creoles, namely, Papiamento, Palenquero and Chabacano, in order to offer a brief description of their main characteristics on the lexical, morphosyntactic and phonological levels. At the same time, taking into account the criteria outlined by the Unesco regarding the survival and extinction of languages, the article foresees the future of these Spanish-based creoles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to trace the presence of Jorge Luis Borges in the genesis of El año del verano que nunca llegó, work of the Colombian writer William Ospina. The influence of the Argentine writer is evident through quotes, references and allusions to his life. However, before the idea began to materialize, there was a moment, when inspiration invaded Ospina, in wich Borges was already present. To warn this, it is necessary to trace the events narrated in El año del verano que nunca llegó and also in the conference that Willliam Ospina gave in the Congreso Iberoamericano de Educación. Metas 2021, under the name «Preguntas para una nueva educación». Within this multiple perspective, we come to a conclusion: the presence of Borges in the genesis of Ospina's work is continuos, constant, and very importan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper holds that the narrative values assumed by the audiovisual culture have broadened the semiological horizons of televised fiction. The transition of fictional resources from one field to another has optimised the serial narrative and augmented its reputation, allowing for the reflection on its new status over the following pages. To this end, a heterogeneous corpus of television series has been selected randomly but not exhaustively. This enables consideration of the new codes and narrative mechanisms which have promoted the rise of the television series, its increase in value and its place at the epicentre of a new chapter of the classic cultural debate; namely whether it signifies the beginning of an apocalyptic end to culture or can be integrated and ultimately accepted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper pretends to present the poetry of religious character that is integrated in the Mexican manuscript Flores de Baria Poesía (Mexico, 1577), the first poetic anthology that manifests petrarchism or the petrarchan influence in New Spain. In order to carry out the proposed objective, we focused, on the one hand, on the contents of the codex and, on the other hand, on the analysis of the most representative compositions of this theme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the last poetry book by the Venezuelan writer Isaías Cañizález Ángel (1973), entitled Kuaderno Palestino (2013). Besides showing the evolution of his aesthetic towards a progressively more combative discourse, these pages attempt to demonstrate and analyze the survival of certains ways of creation whose origins are situated at least fifty years ago in Venezuelan literature. From this perspective, it is concluded that Kuaderno Palestino culminates, up to now, a remarkable critical path in relation to the using of the spaces as literary resources of opposition to the neoliberal governments and also in relation to the possibility of giving a real legitimacy to the oppressed voices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper does not pretend to the goal of analyzing this novel by Virgilio Piñera in its particularities and formal bonanzas. Rather, without undoing these, we will turn our attention to the enormous conceptual wealth of what the Cuban author proposed through this narrative. As a necessary complementation of this, it is intended to offer a modest work of inquiry about the sources, influences and, therefore, of the last effects with which La carne de René absorbs and succeeds in removing the reader. In this way, this literary work will be articulated in its sense by offering in the first instance all those elements that have previously existed in literary history, and, of course, the religious motives that were used as a source and in turn creative motivation. Likewise, it is intended to leave a succinct record about the philosophical and / or spiritual philosophical origins in which Piñera's work can be framed, a dimension that must also be reflected in these pages. Finally, emphasis will be placed on the traces of theatricality in this novel, whereby the circle of all that composes the world of its author can be shown here minimally profiled to offer a perspective of sufficient approximation to René. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the novelties of the twentieth century narrative has been exploring new alternatives in traditional/mainstream ordination through formal experimentation. By defying the space and time limits and toying with the reader's position, many writers have renovated the structural organization of this genre. In Argentine, one of the most relevant of this was Adán Buenosayres (1948) Leopoldo Marechal's first novel, which contains seven interdependent books which each contain their own themtatic and formal nucleus. Its events do not follow a chronological or linear order. This sets the need to interpret certain key ideas regarding the novel which would reestructure the Marechalian universe in a coherent manner. The aim of the present paper consists in carrying out a reading of the final and the protagonists destiny through the Narcissus Myth, which makes itself present twice in the novel, which the writer addresses in detail in his essay Descenso y Ascenso del alma por la Belleza (1965). From my point of view it's significant to analyze Adán through the interpretation of the myth that the author took into consideration, given that said analyses would elucidate relevant matters regarding the protagonists fortune, aspect which is broadly debated by critics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries a philosophical and aesthetic approach to the socalled "rappel a l'Ordre", understood as a back toward an idea of beauty in the arts of the 20th century avantgarde. It is studied the works of B. Hepworth and Th. Hatzimihail, two ways to understand this topic, from Western and Eastern traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will analyze the purely performative (theatrical) character of the Commedia dell'arte, which laid the foundations of modern theatre. To do this, I will focus on two authors who are key figures both for theatrical theory and for the European scene. On the one hand, Carlo Gozzi, who plays a particularly significant role in the theatre scene of the eighteenth century in Italy because of the position that he adopted in relation to the Goldoni's reform. On the other hand, Vsevolod Meyerhold, who in the context of the twentieth century will revolutionize the theatre scene of his time and will set a turning point in acting theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Works of art are material objects that at the same time and in mysterious ways are spiritual objects (i. e. immaterial). Using Kant and Schiller, this article opposes the Platonic and Aristotelian qualification with a different conception of art, which would be a human manufacture not subject to the logic of appropriation, but of its opposite. Man is a rational being, but Kant gave this idea three dimensions: reason is knowledge, but also compassion and contemplation. A human being has theoretical interests, practical interests... and multiple interests. The "aesthetic temper" to which Schiller refers points to this faculty of doing nothing, to this loosening of tensions, occupations and worries, to the pure delight (or dread) of being merely in the world. Aesthetic experience or emotion comes to the surface when we expect nothing -- neither good nor bad-- from things. It is paradoxical that one dimension of our rationality is the faculty of not waiting, of not seeking, of not modifying or substituting, of not moving a finger, of simply doing nothing: it is the faculty of letting come, of letting appear (and disappear), of letting things be; it is the faculty of deactivating --momentarily-- our other faculties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the idea is to offer an approximation to the Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh. To carry out this task, we have focused three fundamental texts that explain the literary and political path of the author: The nominal novel Operación Masacre, the statement of fiction Esa Mujer and the document of denunciation Carta abierta de un escritor a la Junta Militar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the erotic novel Elogio de la madrastra by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa as an inversion of Phaedra's myth and taking Hippolytu's Euripides as a reference. First, I analyze the deep structure of the myth and the different links that we fin in the novel. Then, I focus on other elements that the classical tragedy and the modern work have in common. Finally, considering Euripides's two versions about Phaedra, Hippolytus Veiled --tragedy condemned by the Athenian people-- and Hippolytus who wears a Crown --the work that exalted to Euripides--, we try to specify which of the two tragedies is closer to the reinterpretation of the myth that Vargas Llosa carries out in Elogio de la madrastra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to delve into the origins of consensual humiliation, elusive, involution and cowardly behavior apparently characterized by the protagonists of the novels Small Maneuvers written by Virgilio Piñera and Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, to raise the possibility that Piñera has picked up the baton of Russian author reworking in the Cuban way the profile of the underground man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to collect and analyze the attributes, virtues and qualities possessed by knights in the palatial comedies of Calderon de la Barca. Focusing on Auristela and Lisidante, its author tries to reconstruct an archetype, in order to demonstrate that Calderón rises to his male characters in a series of concrete comedies to the category of myth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a comparative study of the theme of the impossibility of writing in two fundamental works for the literary development of the twentieth century, such as the famous Lord Chandos Letter (1902), by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and what many people know as "Morelli's book" which is none other than the set of fragments and chapters --some of them "dispensable"-- that Julio Cortázar included in its labyrinthine Hopscotch (1963). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares and analyzes a selection of four videopoems belonging to Lola López Cózar. The study aims to reveal the sense that reach the textual, visual and audio resources in the process of artistic creation, especially stopping at one of the main concepts that cover the work of the videopoet: sadness. In particular, it is interesting to explore how they interact, complement or specialize these three modes the word, image and sound transmitting when the subjectivity of the author in the aesthetic productions that called grafopoemas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]