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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]

The present paper analyses one of the less commonly studied aspects of the poetics of César Aira: exoticism, which in Aira stems from the unstable and paradoxical place proper of a post-modern writer from the Rio de la Plata facing traditional (and European) representations of exoticism in a period of cultural globalisation. The paper examines such a paradox and concludes that Aira's exoticism is manifest in the ethnographic simulation and in certain thoughts on the de-familiarisation of the mother tongue. [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]

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]

Lope de Vega introduces into two sonnets of Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos, references to elements of the classical world that have not been well explained in annotated editions of the poems. This paper discusses, on the one hand, a sonnet containing anecdotes about ancient Greek philosophers, notably, Diogenes, Democritus and Pythagoras; and on the other, a sonnet alluding to The Golden Ass of Apuleius, in which is observable Lope's interest in continuing the tradition of the fictitious author. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper comprehends an analysis of the characteristics given by Callimachus to Artemis in his Hymn III. On that account, I suggest and uphold the hypothesis that the poet presents in his mythical version a development or evolution of the goddess which leads her from one state of παῖς to a transformation into a δαίμων, subsequently into a θεά and finally into an ἄνασσα/πότνια. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the work and figure of Uruguayan writer Juana de Ibarbourou (1892-1979) during the 1920's decade in which the poet published her first trilogy, which included Las lenguas del diamante (1919), El cántaro fresco (1920) and Raíz salvaje (1922). The interpretation hypothesis proposes that the success among critics which in 1929 consecrated the poet as 'Juana of America' has more to do with the historic context in which the work was read than with the work's intrinsic characteristics. In this sense, the key element was rather the timeliness of her aestheticideological proposal (the simplicity of her language; her anti-intellectualism; the vitality and conservative values regarding her take on gender and her position towards modernisation, represented in the exaltation of nature and the rejection of 'civilised life') within the nationalistic tendencies in vogue at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Luis de Miranda, member of Pedro de Mendoza's fleet, wrote, probably around 1540, a composition in verse that is now known as Elegy Romance or simply Romance. Ricardo Rojas considered the poem to be the first literary composition of the Rio de la Plata in the early twentieth century. Since then, critics have read the Romance exclusively as a literary text. This paper proposes to read it taking into account its documentary context: the letter that Miranda himself sent to the King in 1545 and the Relación that Francisco Ortiz de Vergara sent to the Council of the Indies, at the end of which the Romance is copied. This reading, without excluding the literary dimension of the text, allows us to consider it integrating a discursive constellation whose purpose is eminently political. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationship between Octavio Paz and Surrealism. It focuses not only on the vital relationship of the poet with the French Literary Group but also on his particular aproach to the aesthethics and ethics of Surrealism. For Paz, Surrealism implied a moral philosophy and that is why he used objective chance as a tool for knowledge, logic and poetic abstraction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyses urban imaginaries in the poetry of Elicura Chihuailaf, Leonel Lienlaf and David Añiñir. The invisibility attributed to urban Mapuche people by a nation that conceives itself as homogenously white is somatised through these intercultural texts exhibiting ethnic subjectivities inserted in the tension between belonging and feeling alienated. The inscription of a Mapuche worldview as a reaffirmation of identity is carried out in urban space (an emblem of Chilean nation-culture). Within this conflictive polarisation they become colonial interstice (Chihuailaf ), space that breaks the body-nature-divinity unity (Lienlaf ) and waste of the neoliberal nation (Añiñir). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poetry of Francisco de Aldana (1537–1578) is of notable interest, inasmuch as it can be situated halfway between the Renaissance and the Baroque and, as critics have noted, since it constitutes an extraordinary example of so-called Mannerism. This paper aims to show the contradictory views expressed in Aldana’s work on the profession of arms and war. ‘Pocos tercetos escritos a un amigo’ can be ascribed to the ‘humanism of arms’ (also present in Don Quixote) and to the Renaissance ideal of the poet soldier, best exemplified by Garcilaso de la Vega. However, in subsequent works Aldana goes on to condemn war and the horrors which it entails. Thus, the military focus gives way to the contemplative spirit and the desire for retirement from the world, as observed in the superb ‘Carta para Arias Montano’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews different mappings of recent Latin- American poetry based on four anthologies: Antología de la poesía latinoamericana del siglo XXI. El turno y la transición (1997); Zur Dos, última poesía latinoamericana (2004); El decir y el vértigo. Panorama de la poesía hispanoamericana reciente (2005) y 2017. Nueva poesía contemporánea (2009). Examples are approached in a manner relative to their relation to the present, and their tensions with the past and with an imagined future. Their intervention in the field of poetry is studied as an act of breaking, which is where anthologies achieve their utmost critical importance. Break and dispositio, and the syntax with which the texts are organised, will be the instances of transformation of what is read within a continuum of a nature different to the originals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the poetry of three authors whose works are among the most attractive of the last thirty years of Peruvian poetry. They have brought a rich complexity to their lyric tradition. That is the reason why their poetry has expanded the horizons of Hispanic poetry. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate an area of contemporary poetry—the works of José Morales Saravia, José Antonio Mazzotti and Róger Santiváñez—that without a doubt will mark some of the future paths of poetry in Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to address the neobaroque poetry of Rio de la Plata. In this regard, I have selected the work of Susana Cella and Eduardo Espina. The cultures of the two banks of the great river produce semiotic representations and different deconstructions, where the river is vestige and joyful shine of the history of the South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to recall from oblivion and analyze the translations of the Anacreontea that were published by some members of a literary group called the "Mexican Arcadia" at the start of the 19th Century in El Diario de México. In this journal a translation of Anacreontea 38 (Campbell) by Flagrasto Cicné (pseudonym of Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle) was printed, as well as two different translations of Anacreontea 24, one probably due to Sánchez de Tagle himself, while the other was the one Luzán included also in his Poetic (Zaragoza, 1737); likewise, Moschus' erotic epigram included in the Greek Anthology (XVI, 200) was translated by Manuel Martínez de Navarrete and published twice within a couple of months in the same journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the proem of Parmenides' poem to the scope of showing how it is skillfully constructed both at the level of the artistic finish and as regards the communicative frame, which is designed to pose a challenge to the intelligence of the hearer. Actually, the receiver is exposed to a bundle of stimuli quite often contradictory, ranging from expressive ambiguity to subtle insinuation, with effects that are indeed devised to strike very sensitive chords in his/her mind. On these assumptions, it is then argued that the contrast between the fascinating story narrated in the allegorical proem and the really philosophical section of Parmenides' poem may depend on their gestation at two different stages in this philosopher's life. It is on the first of them that the influence of the Homeric epos is inescapable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper analyzes Abad's Poema Heroico from the point of view of exile. The author of the poem is an expulsed Jesuit from America in 1767. This work does not deal with the expulsion, but the memories of Mexico constitute one of the fundamental topics of the choice of the epic genre. In addition, the poem shows the survival of this genre in the 18th Century and the importance of Jesuit literature in the Latin American culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]