A sua pesquisa

Neste artigo, através de uma análise das formas e dos conteúdos de várias pelejas brasileiras, selecionadas de entre muitas centenas de folhetos de cordel, procuramos mostrar de que modo aí se apresentam e confrontam homens e mulheres; e procuramos, ainda, compreender o lugar deste género textual na (re)construção da sociedade brasileira (e não só).

Reconheço na literatura e nos estudos literários um lugar central na História e na evolução do ser humano e da sociedade, e este livro, dividido em duas secções (Poesia e Ficção), é o reflexo disso mesmo; reflexo, também, de obras teóricas que, independentemente dos seus princípios de base (mais biografistas, psicologistas ou socioculturais, mais formalistas e estruturalistas, mais de estilística e retórica, etc., ou mais de síntese entre as várias orientações), têm sido decisivas para a constituição da crítica literária moderna e do seu propósito de determinação, na medida do possível, dos sentidos e valores de um texto literário ou de um sistema de obras literárias.

Artes poéticas mexicana (de los Contemporáneos a la actualidad) nace de la necesidad de abordar un aspecto esencia a la hora de acercarnos a la poesía, el estudio, el análisis detallado de aquellos poemas en los que los escritores, en este caso mexcianos, intentan dilucidar y en ocasiones exponer su postura ante el hecho poeético, y ello desde una perspectiva que sin duda es fruto de toda una tradición pero a la que se acude para registrar una visión candente de la poesía. Este volumen parte de un estudio general, panorámico, en el que se analizan las diferentes propuestas metapoéticas desde los Contemporáneos hasta las últimas tendencias. A esta primera aportación le siguen estudios específicos de las artes poéticas de algunos poetas (Xavier Villaurrutia, Jorge Cuesta, Gilberto Owen, Octavio Paz, Efraín Huerta, Rosario Castellanos, Jaime Sabines, Gabriel Zaid, José Emilio Pacheco, Hormero Aridjis, Francisco Hernández, Alberto Blanco, Vicente Quirarte, Julián Herbert; y una reflexión sobre poesía mexicana reciente a partir del estudio de los metapoemas de algunas poetas), muestra de la buena salud de la que las artes poéticas siguen gozando en México. El lector podrá comprobar en estas páginas cómo con el paso de los años la concepción de lo poético ha ido variando y aportando nuevas formas de entender aquello que podríamos denominar la esencia de la poesía desde la misma poesía.

Werne Wolf iniciava el seu treball “The lyric: Problems of Definition and Proposal for Reconceptualisation” (2005: 21-56) de forma irònica, però també amb lucidesa. L’obria amb una cita molt coneguda de Samuel Beckett, que recentment un tenista suís, Stan Wawrincka, s’ha tatuat a l’avantbraç: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.// Try again. Fail again. Fail better” (Worstward Ho). De fet, potser el títol més escaient o l’advertència que haurien d’incloure tots els estudis de teoria poètica eixiria d’un escurçament del seu “La poesia: problemes”. No obstant, l’ambigüitat del nostre, “L’espai del poema”, permet plantejar alguns dels temes que es tracten en les pàgines d’aquest volum i esbossar uns alters.

En este estudio se investigan nociones aportadas por la crítica literaria y socio-cultural en torno a la discursividad del espacio como modo de producción. Asimismo, se redefine el espacio poemático verbal en contraste con el espacio fractal y se propone un modo inclusivo de lectura del mismo basado en propuestas teóricas de diversas escuelas de pensamiento y nuevos espacios epistemológicos: formalismo (Víctor Shklovsky), postestructuralismo (Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja Roland Barthes; Mitchell W. J. T.; Mieke Ball), psicología de la percepción (la Gestalt), el concepto de espacio negativo “Ma” (Alan Fletcher; Richard B. Pilgrim), la poética cognitiva (Gaston Bachelard; Peter Stockwell; Reuven Tsur). De modo particular, se analiza el concepto de espacio como agente semiótico en la poesía fractal de Ramon Dachs y Roger Olivella.

Poetry began as a spoken art and remains one to this day, but readers tend to view the poem on the page as an impenetrable artifact. This book examines the performance of poetry to show how far beyond the page it can travel. Exploring a range of performances from early twentieth-century recitations to twenty-first-century film, CDs, and Internet renditions, Beyond the Page offers analytic tools to chart poetry beyond printed texts.Jill S. Kuhnheim, looking at poetry and performance in Spanish America over time, has organized the book to begin with the early twentieth century and arrive at the present day. She includes noteworthy poets and artists such as José Martí, Luis Palés Matos, Eusebia Cosme, Nicomedes Santa Cruz, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo, and Nicolás Guillén, as well as very recent artists whose performance work is not as well known. Offering fresh historical material and analysis, the author illuminates the relationship between popular and elite cultural activity in Spanish America and reshapes our awareness of the cultural work poetry has done in the past and may do in the future, particularly given the wide array of technological possibilities. The author takes a broad view of American cultural production and creates a dialogue with events and criticism from the United States as well as from Spanish American traditions.Oral and written elements in poetry are complementary, says Kuhnheim, not in opposition, and they may reach different audiences. As poetry enjoys a revival with modern media, performance is part of the new platform it spans, widening the kind of audience and expanding potential meanings. Beyond the Page will appeal to readers with an interest in poetry and performance, and in how poetry circulates beyond the page. With an international perspective and dynamic synthesis, the book offers an innovative methodology and theoretical model for humanists beyond the immediate field, reaching out to readers interested in the intersection between poetry and identity or the juncture of popular-elite and oral-written cultures.

Conferencia Magistral de Jaime Labastida Ochoa, Doctor en Filosofía por la UNAM y Director de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, como parte de la jornada de Cantabria Campus Nobel dedicada al Patrimonio y la Lengua.

Professionalization and political engagement are usually placed as incompatible in the case of journalism and the mainstream press, resulting in an identification of cultural resistance exclusively with alternative/amateur vehicles. I will use the concept of journalistic field as introduced by Pierre Bourdieu to review these assumptions and discuss a form of political resistance that acts in one's own area of knowledge, is not overtly political and whose effects are not immediately accountable for. Drawing examples from my research on two literary newspapers published in the 1950s in Brazil and Uruguay, this paper will focus on the implications of didacticism for literary criticism as a genre of newswriting. The analysis of these newspapers will lead to a reflection on two main issues: a) the conflict between the professionalization and democratization of literature; and b) the definition of resistance as necessarily an action that is against something. The article will reconsider education in journalism as a form of resistance, taking into account its risks of becoming political indoctrination and commercial manipulation, but emphasizing its potential as a way of expanding access to literature.

This essay is a brief study of translation as a practice of aesthetic resistance seen from a historical and philosophical perspective. Translation is perceived as the process of transition and negotiation within the ‘third space' between various different hybrid cultural contexts and their discursive constraints, and referred to as ‘paratranslation'. It summarises the first attempts to think of translation as an almost ‘holistic' paradigm and the aesthetics of intervention from Romantic philosophy onwards. It attempts to show how Walter Benjamin's master narrative, the utopia of ‘pure language', encourages continuous resistance to the totalitarianism of the idea of the ‘original', to aesthetics (within the sense of the perception of the real) and to dominant discourses. It subsequently defines the idea of ‘progress', which considers translation as aesthetic resistance, as a process of construction in constant deconstruction. It concludes by exemplifying the notion of translation as a paradigm of intervention in modernity with a brief analysis of the transcreation performed by Erin Mouré on Fernando Pessoa/Alberto Caeiro's poetic cycle, O Guardador de Rebanhos (The Keeper of Sheep).

Se retoman algunas líneas que permitan explicar la manera en que se introduce en la literatura mexicana la perspectiva maldita o decadentista. Propuesta de un arte inmoral, con la vocación de cuestionar al burgués. Temas del erotismo en la literatura mexicana. Influencia de Baudelaire, RImbaud y Nietzsche en la literatura mexicana del modernismo y la vanguardia.

En su tratado de poética, Horacio afirmaba que la literatura debía ser dulce y útil. Cientos de años después, en la primera mitad del siglo XX, George Bataille escribe: la literatura “no puede ser útil porque es la expresión del hombre ―de la parte esencial del hombre― y lo esencial en el hombre no es reductible a la utilidad”. Utilidad y literatura son excluyentes. Ya no se escribe para servir a los semejantes sino para “revelar a la soledad de todos una parte intangible que nadie someterá nunca”. El escritor debe ejercer su libertad, lo cual significa dejar atrás el servilismo. Este ejercicio a menudo lo destruye, pero eso lo hace más fuerte. Para este escritor francés, la literatura debe expresar la esencia humana porque, de lo contrario, no es literatura y una de las expresiones de esta esencia, la expresión soberana, dice el autor, es el mal, una forma del mal, que no supone la ausencia de moral sino que exige una hipermoral.

Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word brings together seventeen essays, written especially for this volume, on poetry readings, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and contemporary poetru performance has been negligible, despite the crucial importance of performance to the practice of the poetry of this century. This collection opens many new avenues for the critical discussion of the sound and performance of poetry. Paying special attention to innovative work. More important, the essays collected here offer original and wide –ranging elucidatiions of how twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performance art. Introduction. Charles Berstein I.-Sound´s Measures 1. Letter on Sound. Susan Stewart. 2. The Aural Ellipsis and the Nature of Listening in Contemporary Poetry. Nick Piombino. 3. Praxis: A Political Economy of Noise and Information. Bruce Andrews. 4. After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetries. Marjorie Perloff. 5. Ether Either. Susan Howe. II. Performing Words 6. Visual Performance of the Poetic Text, Johana Drucker. 7. Voice in Extremis. Steve McCaffery. 8. Toward a Poetics of Polyphony and Translatabilityl. Dennis Tedlock. 9. Speech Effects: The Talk as a Genre. Bob Perrelman. 10. Sound Reading. Peter Quartermain. III-Close Hearings/Historical Settings 11. Understanding the Sound of Not Understanding. Jed Rasula 12. The Contemporary Poetry Reading. Peter Middelton 13. Neon Griot: The Functional Role of Poetry Readings in the Black Arts Movement. 14. Was That “Different”, “Dissident” or “Dissonant”? Poetry (n) the Public Spear: Slams, Open Readings, and Dissident Traditions.Maria Damon. 15. Local Vocals: Hawaii´s Pidgin Literature, Performance and Postcoloniality. Susan M. Schltz Afterword: VWho Speaks: Ventriloquism and the Self in the Poetry Reading. Ron Silliman Audio Resources Bibliography

La canción «de autor» española emergente en los '60 como modelo poético alternativo exhibe, en su misma factura, los estados de hibridación que atraviesan la mayor parte de los discursos culturales de la actualidad. Como gesto semiótico plural, se constituye en el cruce de tres sistemas: la literatura, el espectáculo y los medios de comunicación. En su naturaleza multifronte polemizan los paradigmas de oralidad yescritura, la premodernidad y la modernidad, las categorías de «culto», «popular», «masivo». Su relación con la literatura consagrada es, a un tiempo, de sumisión y de rechzo: se recuesta en ella en tanto modelo expresivo yrepertorio a musicalizar, pero se aparta de sus circuitos tradicionales para volverla sonido, cuerpo, texto que salta del cenáculo a la calle, de la letra a la voz, del libro al disco. En este sentido, la puesta en música de poesía en lengua española constituye uno de los aspectos más interesantes del género, aspecto que lleva nuestra reflexión hacia problemas teóricos específicos en tomo a la «traducción», en este caso, entre sistemas de modelización cultural diferentes.

The "public sphere" is widely debated in contemporary literary and cultural studies circles in the United States. The topic's significance underscores the pressing problem of the location of these contemporary debates: Is the "public sphere" a single authoritative and universal space in which the various positions in these debates compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? The term "public" has emerged with new urgency in different disciplines and contexts history, cinema and television studies, art criticism, feminist, gay and lesbian, postcolonial, and subaltern perspectives, and is proliferating in titles of books, articles, and college courses. "Public Sphere and Experience" opens the discussion of the material conditions of experience into an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the media of mass and consumer culture, in particular the so-called new media.