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New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics
This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to studies in aesthetics, metaphysics and literary interpretation, written by such authors as, among others, R. Cobb-Stevens, C. Moreno Marquez, J. Swiecimski, Sitansu Ray and M. Kronegger. These original studies of phenomenological aesthetics and literary theory by scholars from all parts of the world were gathered by the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learn ing during the year 1988/89 during its assessment of the phenomeno logical movement, fifty years after Husserl's death. IX A -T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXXVII, ix.
Imperialism and the Wider Atlantic
The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America across languages, cultures, and periods. Historically grounded while offering new theoretical approaches, the volume encourages debate on whether the critical lens of imperialism often invoked to explain transatlantic studies may be challenged by the diagonal translinguistic relationships that comprise what the editors term "the wider Atlantic". The essays explore how instances of inverse coloniality, global networks of circulation, and linguistic conceptualizations of nation and identity question dominant structures of power from the nineteenth century to today.
Transatlantic Studies
This book emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate about transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. In thirty-five short essays, leading scholars reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires.
Expressivity in Modern Poetry
Expressivity in Modern Poetry explores three interrelated subjects. The first is a general exposition of the radical or deeply realistic aspects of the poetry and visual arts of the modem period. The focus is on the works of Ezra Pound as understood through a prism of postmodern thought. The second subject is the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson, a pivotal figure during the transition from modernism to postmodemism. The third subject is contemporary innovative poetry with special attention to transcultural, neobarroco, and language-centered aspects of composition. The grounding for this section is found in the works of William Carlos Williams, Aime Cesaire, and Jose Lezama Lima. A reversal of the relation between the center and periphery-decentering the New York-to-Paris vector-is crucial for understanding the Caribbean as a seedbed for both innovative and identity-based poetics. Wellman's purpose is to amplify the cultural importance of expressivity in a field where critical discussion is often dominated by constructivism and conceptualism. Expressivity in Modern Poetry offers a new reading of the relation between twentieth-century modernism and contemporary poetic practice.
Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities. Miguel Arnedo-Gómez explores this paradox in Guillén’s pre-Cuban Revolution writings placing them alongside contemporaneous intellectual discourses that feigned adherence to the homogenizing ideology whilst upholding black interests. On the basis of links with these and other 1930s Cuban discourses, Arnedo-Gómez shows Guillén’s work to contain a message of black unity aimed at the black middle classes. Furthermore, against a tendency to seek a single authorial consciousness—be it mulatto or based on a North American construction of blackness—Guillén’s prose and poetry are also characterized as a struggle for a viable identity in a socio-culturally heterogeneous society.
The Latin American Art Song
Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in the art songs of Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Perú, and Colombia. The book addresses the subject of performance practice of the Latin American song and ends with a proposal for its interpretation. In songs, spaces of representation and cathartic tools thought, language and music have been at the service of some interests, fulfilling specific functions in the construction of the nation. In them, we observe that the construction of identity is a continuous, constant and changing process in which different stories are superimposed. Seen this way, songs are historical texts where social interactions are reflected, and the past, the present and the future are constantly negotiated. The book also addresses the subject of performance practice of the Latin American song and ends with a proposal for its interpretation.
Alejo Carpentier. La facultad mayor de la cultura
La historia y la cultura de América Latina han sido objeto de múltiples tergiversaciones o visiones superficiales que se perpetúan hasta el presente. De ahí la urgencia de emprender estudios que rescaten la reflexión de los autores de la región sobre nuestros principales problemas. En el presente libro, Luis Álvarez se entrega con fervor a esta tarea y nos muestra cómo Alejo Carpentier produjo un pensamiento sobre la cultura de trascendental importancia para la comprensión de la especificidad cultural latinoamericana y el conocimiento de su presente, pasado y futuro. El autor identifica y describe las diferentes etapas transitadas por la reflexión carpenteriana, desde su juvenil en...
Literatura, crítica, libertad. Estudios en homenaje a Juan Bravo Castillo
Con este libro, en el que se reúnen cuarenta y dos estudios crítico-literarios de diferentes disciplinas y perspectivas filológicas, se rinde homenaje a una de las grandes figuras de los ámbitos de la Filología Francesa y la Literatura Comparada en la España democrática: Juan Bravo Castillo (Hellín, 1948). Como Catedrático de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ha desarrollado a lo largo de las últimas cuatro décadas una muy ambiciosa y fructífera labor como docente, investigador, traductor y crítico, sin olvidar su faceta como autor de obras literarias y trabajos periodísticos. Además, es director de la revista literaria Barcarola —una de las más destacadas revistas lite...
Para romper con el insularismo
Para romper con el insularismo que ha venido caracterizando la literatura puertorriqueña nueve destacados especialistas proponen estudios desde una perspectiva comparatista. Quíntuples de Luis Rafael Sánchez entra en diálogo con The Last Carnival de Derek Walcott. Los planteamientos (afro)antillanos de Palés Matos son revisitados en relación con los de Guillén. Los ensayos de José Luis González son puestos en relación con el ideario del pensador dominicano Silvio Torres-Saillant. El cuento 'Cuatro selecciones por una peseta' de Ana Lydia Vega y Carmen Lugo Filippi engendra reflexiones sobre clichés caribeños al cotejarlo con 'Vellonera de sueños' del dominicano Luis Martín Góm...
La magia de lo verosímil
En "La magia de lo verosímil: ensayos de la literatura y lingüística" se reúnen algunos textos sobre obras de escritores clásicos o contemporáneos: poetas, novelistas y dramaturgos, producidas en lengua española. Esos estudios, que fueron publicados en variadas épocas, tienen el objeto de poner las obras y su autor en evidencia y provocar más comentarios y, como una obra ofrece una pluralidad de interpretación y solamente es obra gracias al lector, los apuntes que hago podrán ser acrecidos, pues leer un libro es desvelar un mundo y crear otros. Y así me quedo con lo escrito por Jorge Luis Borges en "Del culto al Libro" en Otras inquisiciones: "El mundo [...] existe por un libro [...] somos versículos o palabras o letras de un libro mágico, y ese libro incesante es la única cosa que hay en el mundo: es, mejor dicho, el mundo."
