Los tres pasos

La poesía puede nacer como una sensación, un recuerdo, una certeza, una luz, o una sombra que se prolonga en la mente.

Algunas prácticas artísticas latinoamericanas contemporáneas trabajan con formas de lo impersonal y anónimo e insisten en interrogar la intensidad de una experiencia que es irreductible a un yo y que se vuelve instancia de interrogación y exploración. Obras de Teixeira Coelho, Veronica Stigger, Diamela Eltit, Rosângela Rennó, Gian Paolo Minelli, Sergio Chejfec, Edgardo Dobry, Marília Garcia, Carlos Cociña, Patricio Guzmán, Jonathas de Andrade y Kleber Mendonça Filho elaboran formas de acceder –de narrar, de exhibir, de discutir– a una vida anónima que viene a reemplazar la...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...