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This paper sets out an approaching to "El crisol" and "El ángel caído", two short stories by Germán Espinosa. The critical reading is associated to the notion that the act of reading/writing is a dialogic act, in which writers exploit all the readings that are around them. The focus is on the way the reader/writer Espinosa presents a reading/writing relationship with Jorge Luis Borges and William Faulkner in those short stories. The paper provides an innovative reading of one of the most prolific Colombian authors from the second half of the 20th Century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the novel Amarás a Dios sobre todas las cosas (2013), by Mexicain writer Alejandro Hernández, and proposes to go beyond the press treatment of the issue by offering an analysis of the fiction which focuses on the migratory journey. The testimonial value of the story reflects the full drama of that journey, allowing it to act as a tool of denunciation. Moreover, the story is presented as a chronicle, which allows the work of fiction to insert itself in a context that reveals the violence that Central American migrants suffer during their hellish crossing of Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of the paper is to demonstrate the presence of Easter Island's history in Neruda's writing, mainly in The separate Rose (1972). I propose that in order to read these poems it is necessary to connect them with historic events and characters, because through those connections new readings -until now absent from nerudian criticism-may be born. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most interesting passages in El Libro de Alexandre, a text that updates for the Middle Ages the life of Alexander the Great and adds certain fantastic aspects, is, with no doubt, the finding of Poro's Palace, located in India. In this episode, the Macedonian king finds a tree made of gold that is an automat, it means a kind of robot that moves itself by certain physical forces. In this paper, the author tries to get deeper in this passage and reveals its intra and extratextual functions, as well as its intertextual and extratextual relationship, concerning other literary works and historical aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that 'Chac Mool' (1954) by Carlos Fuentes and 'Coatlicue' (2003) by Elena Poniatowska are short stories that utilize motifs of the Aztec cosmogony in order to disarticulate the discursive formation of Mexican national imaginary. However, the writers propose, more than a mythopoeic articulation of those motifs, a poetic deconstruction of the history and myths that form the foundations of Mexican national identity. In other words, while offering a vivid and literary perspective of Mexico, both writers also narrate it and recreate its myths and mythologies, offering at the same time an alternative vision of it outside the official narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the presence of Fray Luis de León in the literary and critical work of Antonio Colinas. In addition to the lyrical homages dedicated to the Augustinian friar in Noche más allá de la noche, Tiempo y abismo, and Canciones para una música silente, Antonio Colinas, an excellent essayist, interprets Fray Luis in the light (mystical, lato sensu) of reasoned music, a wise symbol of poetic art, inspired reason and harmony between word and world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to determine the place of Alvaro Mutis's poetry in the general landscape of Colombian poetic movements. I begin with an overview of the poetic generation in the first half of the 20th century in order to identify the legacies that have had the most significant impact on his poetry. Special emphasis is made on the contrast between Mutis's innovative poetic language and his conservative political views as the main characteristic of his insularity in Colombian literary history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I approach one of the first discursive constructions of the history of the New Spain, the poem Nuevo mundo y conquista, written by Francisco de Terrazas, a creole, in the late sixteenth century. For this, I outline the creation of a creole class, heir to the feeling of nobility of the first conquerors of America, and then I analyze the writting of Nuevo mundo y conquista in the context of these considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the lexical-semantic changes suffered by apechugar [undertake], atarantado [astounded, lightheaded, thoughless], baraja [quarrel], blanca [money], desayunarse [to get astonishing news], pelar [to get someone's money], pluma [money] in several Spanish-speaking American countries (e.g. Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and others) with emphasis on Venezuela. These words were used by Juan de Castellanos in his Elegías de Varones Ilustres de Indias (1589). The study verifies the evolution of these voices through lexicographical important books. The investigation concludes that, after 500 years, (i) the examined lexis stay in America, (ii) new entities have been produced from these vocabularies, (iii) the terms have changed their meaning, what giving them character own to the American Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to peruse the book Diario de la muerte by the Uruguayan poet Sara de Ibáñez. Using as a critical support semiotic and Freudian- Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, it will be demonstrated how the very deep poetical conception of the book lies in a fundamental anthropological relation between selfness and language. Moreover, the death leitmotiv will be reconsidered as a function of a poetics of desire. This theoretical approach to the text allows to achieve a thorough description of the way this relation takes form through poetry's linguistic structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pizarnik is a writer whose work is highly interesting from the editorial point of view, for two particular situations. First, the published work is identified as "complete" when there is no complete edition of this author, because it bears the burden of censorship. Second, this gap causes the necessity of going to Princeton, where is the "original" work of Pizarnik in a more complete version. This paper tries to explore these points, starting from the experience of editing the unpublished work Otoño o los de arriba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the destabilization of the subject and writing in some poems by León de Greiff. It separates from analysis focused on its Latin-American modernist aesthetic and proposes other items to support its advanced aesthetic, such as the problem of subjectivity or the critique of modernity based on the relationship between autonomy and sovereignty of the art. It develops a perspective that justifies the participation of this poetry in an aesthetic far from modernism and focused on contemporary concerns about fragmented subject and its disintegration in writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides, for the first time, a study of the biographical trajectory and literary analysis of two poets collected in the Cancionero de Baena (PN1), concentrating on the originality and quality of their poetry. I also suggest a correction, relating to Ruiz de Toro's work, which has escaped the attention of editors of this Cancionero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper opens with an excursus on Spanish authors that practise Hispano-ltalian heteroglossia in their works during Pre- and Early Renaissance. In the Hispano-ltalian field, the Italian and bilingual compositions of Francisco de Figueroa play an absolute important role for the description of the event. The essay focuses on the analysis of the distinctive literary forms that heteroglossia —which in this case the author defines “literary biglossia"— takes in the Spanish poet's Italian works in relation to his own literary production in Spanish and to the Petrarchan and Italian tradition. In fact, next to writers that occasionally adopt the “other language" of the “other culture", the “biglossia" is the modality of those fully belonging to both languages and both cultures, since they experiment with forms, whether or not innovative, that mark a milestone in the development of those cultures. Different levels of analysis from metrics to meaning offer a preferential view of this anomalous artistic process, searching for the deep reasons behind a great poet's choice to write in another language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]