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La Écfrasis En La Literatura Hispana. Confluencias Interartísticas Entre La Pintura Y La Literatura, Jimena Zambrano
La Écfrasis En La Literatura Hispana. Confluencias Interartísticas Entre La Pintura Y La Literatura, Jimena Zambrano
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This research analyzes the dialogue between literature and painting; specifically the convergence of aesthetic practices generated through ekphrasis. This study addresses the question of the role of ekphrasis in Hispanic literature, emphasizing the features and significance of the pictorial record in each fictional work. The research starts by delving into the theoretical discussion that has arisen around ekphrasis, in order to propose a definition that fits the needs of the investigation. It analyzes Las siete cabritas by Elena Poniatowska; specifically the narratives addressed to Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo and Nahui Olin. The objective of this article is to examine the …
From Dispossession To The Grotesque: Deterritorializing Human Identity In Cobra, El Obsceno Pájaro De La Noche And The Unnamable, Sandra Paola Preciado
From Dispossession To The Grotesque: Deterritorializing Human Identity In Cobra, El Obsceno Pájaro De La Noche And The Unnamable, Sandra Paola Preciado
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The following text engages the concepts of the grotesque, the self, and language through a reading of three novels: Severo Sarduy’s Cobra, Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable and José Donoso’s El obsceno pájaro de la noche. The novels introduced here find themselves in the position of contributing to the theory of the self, of language and the grotesque through their own experimentations with these concepts, and whose method and creativity align with particularly critical movements in theory, including but not limited to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Just as theorists such as Mikhail Bakhtin and René Descartes engage with …