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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]

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]

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]

Like other Baroque poets, Góngora in his Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea chooses one of his characters to represent his art and to represent himself as a poet. The figure of the monstruous giant Polyphemus --the ironic and desacralizing symbol of Góngora's art-- enters in contrast with other figures, like Apollo and Orpheus- themselves symbols of the art of Lope- that at first glance might seem more appropriate for self-aggrandizement. This paper focuses specifically on the cultural history of the pan flute to demonstrate the appropriateness of Góngora's choice of this instrument for his character Polyphemus, at the same time highlighting the irony of the author's own affirmation that he uses the pan flute to sing his poem. By means of this instrument, the poet identifies himself with the character: the monstrosity of Polyphemus, the exaggeration of his musical instrument, and the brutality of his voice become a mirror --perhaps an inverted, although ultimately amusing and parodical one-- of the poetic project of the Cordoban. [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]