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The following text analyses de dialogue among Plato, Aristotle, Humboldt and Heidegger on the same the basis of speech and its anthropological dimension, based on selected works on philosophy of language. The paper shows the inner tradition of reading of their texts and the conclusions of the development of the philosophical thinking through them. The text opens new paths of research through the depth that the human being and the word show on the beauty and the sacred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a discourse analysis of two poems selected from the book Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (Driskill et al., 2011b) to explore the concept of grief in Two-Spirit/Queer Indigenous poetry. It analyzes the diction, voice, formality, themes, metaphors, similes, personification, and the use of repetition the authors utilize to represent grief and discover the social, cultural, and political realities and discursive practices behind the poems. It concludes that through their expression of grief, the poets highlight the emergence and endurance of a community and people who will continue to fight for survival and the right to live in peace and harmony outside of colonial gender and sexual binaries. Both poems engage with a continuing sense of Two-Spirit identity that call forth new generations of Queer Indigenous/Two-Spirit people while remembering their history and the Elders who came before to heal personal and historical trauma often through connection with nature, their ancestors, and spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper interprets a short passage by Heidegger on the difference between literature and poetry and, especially, on the "unfathomable essential power" of literature. We will argue what the phenomenological features of this "power" of literature that distinguishes it from poetry, showing the internal problematicity of such a distinction. In order to foreground the meaning of this "unfathomable essential power" of literature, a brief reading of Don Quixote's El curioso impertinente will be made. The conclusion is that the "unfathomable" power of literature lies in its ambivalence to be a means of homologation and resistance to that same homologation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper enriches theoretical concepts (such as transitional objects, the objective correlate and deautomatization procedures) with personal experiences from cultural promotion work with children. This public is considered as agents trained to build knowledge, the teacher as a mediator or facilitator of learning, and the book as a meeting point that requires approximations according to the current era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poetry book España, aparta de mí este cáliz by César Vallejo shows his commitment with the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War. War is reflected through the body in different ways: combatants react as if they were only one body, the poet struggles with his writing within his limited flesh, battles take place within the corporal limits of soldiers' bodies, and the country whose universal destiny is at risk appears as a mother carrying her womb in agony. This paper studies how the constant presence of the body in Vallejo's works reaches both a metaphorical and a literal plenitude in this book, which enables the defense of the República. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wiñay Mallki and Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy's poetry allows us to understand some socio-political dimensions of the indigenous literature that is recognized as palabras mayores (ancestral words). The purpose of this article is to contribute to the knowledge of their works starting with a historical overview of the Colombian Southwest to shed a light on the common intentions as well as the encounters of these two poets, from the Yanakuna and Camëntsá people. The text has a bioethnographic approach to the two indigenous authors to establish the relationship of their works with the political and ancestral struggle waged by their indigenous communities. This paper showcases the decolonizing power of the poetries of the two creators from Cauca and Putumayo for the Colombian literary field. Finally, it is important to us to support the opinion of indigenous literatures as oralituras or major words of the native people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Psychology, politics and poetry in Republic IV and X". In this paper, I argue that in the Republic the possibility of a good koinōnia is hindered by the emotional potency and psychological perversion of mimetic-pleasurable poetry, which stimulates and strengthens the irrational part of the soul of its recipients through the imitation of characters linked to desire and anger. To this end, I examine, first, some of the passages in Republic IV in which it is possible to subscribe to the priority of the psychic tripartition over the political tripartition. Secondly, I point out some of the central features of the psychological critique of mimetic-pleasurable poetry in Republic X. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper aims to analyse the production of the Andalusian rapper and poet Ana Isabel Llorente, better known by her pseudonym, Gata Cattana. Firstly, we present her biography and the context in which her artistic career is inserted (2012-2017), developed under circumstances highly conditioned by the economic and socio-political events caused by the Great recession of 2008. A political intention is recognized in her work that, conveyed under a hybrid poetic identity (poet, rapper, and political scientist), points towards a feminist and republican ideology, linked to Spanish historical memory. Secondly, we propose the theoretical framework for a convenient approach to her work. On the one hand, we use the notions established by the authors who have studied the semiotic trace in the text through interdiscursivity and, on the other, the ideas of those who have laid the foundations for the study of the language of hip-hop through stylistic and regional variations as conscious choices of the speaker in a search for authenticity proper to the genre. Finally, the development of interdiscursivity, the combination of styles (educated and colloquial) and the expression of Andalusian variety in Cattana's production are displayed with concrete examples, where the author expresses that triple identity that makes her voice unique in the field of Spanish hip-hop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]