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This paper analyzes the ideas about literary theory by Juan Valera in is Estudios críticos sobre literatura, política y costumbres de nuestros días, published in 1864. Mimesis, anamnesis, criticism of the Neoclassicism and Romanticism, literature aesthetic purpose, l'art pour l'art theory or verisimilitude, are among the concepts studled in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the 5th and 6th essays of Commentary on Plato's Republic, Proclus focuses on rescuing both "myth-makers", Homer and Hesiod, as well as their critics, Socrates and Plato (Republic III and X). In this paper we analyze the relationship that Proclus states between the four grades of poetic discourse -inspired poetry, scientific, of reproduction and of appearances-, and a certain way of life. The features Proclus assigns to the myths do not apply to all of them, as it is necessary to distinguish between two types of myths: the educational ones and the divinely inspired, which correspond to two types of listeners: those concerning the young people, and those whose target are the ones who are able to raise their soul through all divine grades. Poets and Plato teach the same lesson on the same things. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the notion of good and bad characters in a fictional world. The study is done from a humanistic perspective and considers the poetic proposal of Juan José García-Noblejas (1982) and Paul Ricoeur (1987). The paper suggests that a character is good as long as it serves the world of fiction in which it is, whereas the world of fiction is good - in the sense of complete - insofar as it is able to "do justice" to the part of human life it represents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cadmus' episode opens book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses and puts him in the crossing of a double foundation: that of the Theban Cycle and that of a poetics of transgression that extends over the whole text. Such poetics is based on the gaze as a factor of sacrilegious behaviours. In this sense, the main components of Cadmus' story are scattered through the other narrations of Metamorphoses III, which develop them according to their own plot. The profanation of the nemora sacra constitutes the departure point of the cycle of misfortunes of the Theban family. It's closure is the final metamorphosis of Cadmus and his wife Harmonia into serpents. In this paper we intend to explore the construction of this poetics founded on prohibition in Metamorphoses III. We will make emphasis on the idea of transgression related to the metamorphic process suffered by its characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to make an explanation --and to generate a discussion-- on the importance of taking the resources that traditional literature use not only as the "memory-supporting-formulas" they are, but with an analytic focus that let us value them as a complete aesthetic phenomena. Romancero's Triada let me show the stylistic value of these resources, and how different from cultivated literariness' criteria are those that rule traditional one. Examples and discussion will be based on how the Triada can fulfill different poetic functions and, in some cases, define how rich or poor became the aesthetics results in a poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]