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Reframing belonging : affective localism and the early fiction of Reino Rinne
2017
ABSTRACTThe early fiction of a novelist and journalist born in the north of Finland, Reino Rinne (1913–2002), is illustrative of the post-war interest in a redefinition of cultural belonging. The aim of this article is to offer a reading of Rinne’s works that throws light on the way they exemplify a post-war articulation of affective localism. What is especially characteristic of the affective localism produced in Rinne’s early fiction is the deployment of certain narrative elements, realism as an aesthetic regime, tropes of spatial belonging and historical myths that are endowed with affective charge. A comparison between Rinne's first novel Tunturit hymyilevat. Kuvaus Lapista 1900-luvun a…
Baudelaire’s Influence on Duo Duo’s Poetry through Chen Jingrong, a Chinese Woman Poet Translating from French
2012
Abstract As a woman poet, Chen Jingrong’s productions encompassed the whole 20 th century: of particular interest are her poetry translations from the French language. Thanks to her translation work, valuable understanding of Charles Baudelaire’s poetry was made available in China, which influenced the Chinese contemporary poet, Duo Duo, when he first started writing poetry during his youth. This paper tries to depict the importance of this contribution of Chen Jingrong and its effect on the process of renovation of the contemporary poetic scene in China. Keywords: Chen Jingrong, Baudelaire, Duo Duo, contemporary Chinese poetry, translation Izvlecek Opus kitajske pesnice Chen Jingrong zaobj…
Framing Migrant Memories: Lampedusa's Fragmented Archives
2022
The small island of Lampedusa, a key destination of the Central Mediterranean Route connecting Africa to Italy, offers a special observatory on the contemporary trans-Mediterranean odyssey of migrants, although often transformed into a “border spectacle.” Upon landing, migrants are stripped of their belongings, as these are impounded by the authorities. Such an act of dispossession is intended to deprive them of their histories, family ties and cultural identity. Photographer Mario Badagliacca has portrayed a selection of these lost and retrieved items in his work Fragments (2013). Each object reveals expectations, fears, desires, endurance, but cannot tell a full story. They are fragments …
La heterodoxia en la poesía visual española del siglo XXI
2014
Resumen: Toda vanguardia esconde un malestar y una rebeldia contra la realidad que aflige al individuo y que se vuelve objeto de critica en las obras. En este sentido, tras aclarar a que nos referimos cuando hablamos de poesia visual, analizaremos algunas obras que han aparecido por primera vez en 2014, interpretandolas como reaccion contra la perdida de valores de la sociedad postmoderna. La finalidad sera demostrar que la poesia visual espanola del siglo XXI no ha renunciado a su heterodoxia, puesto que elige justamente este universo donde todo es rapido, fluido, superficial, complejo e inasible para seguir denunciando desde su interior la incomunicacion y la alienacion a la que nos han l…
Campo literario y reconstrucción democrática. Dos poéticas estratégicas y una interpelación en la poesía chilena
2018
Este artículo se enmarca en el estudio de las transformaciones que ocurren en aquellos sectores del campo literario implicados en procesos de reconstrucción democrática. Más en concreto, se estudian las relaciones entre estrategias poéticas y políticas que se pueden constatar en el contexto chileno de la primera década de dictadura, un período cuyo inicio se sitúa en el golpe de estado militar del 11 de septiembre de 1973, que marcará una fractura política y también simbólica que será objeto de diferentes representaciones creativas y críticas. Se propone un acercamiento breve a dos estrategias opuestas de intervención: la que pretende restablecer vínculos de continuidad a partir de las anto…
Derek Mahon's Literal Littorals
2012
International audience; A transversal reading of Derek Mahon's poems reveals his predilection for coastal landscapes: vistas of sea and seashore, harbour towns or seaside resorts. Suffused as they are with elemental symbolism (waves, wind, rain and storm, rocks, cliffs and misty piers), those liminal spaces take on a metaphysical dimension. The landscapes that the poet invests are the objective correlatives of his sense of alienation and vulnerability; they are mindscapes (paesagio mentale or reflections of the inner self) as much as territories to be paced and explored. This paper thus examines how the natural and the urban, the visual and the acoustic, the a-temporal and the modern or pos…
Linguistic Dilemma and Intertextuality in Contemporary Italian Poetry: the case of Andrea Zanzotto
2001
Ancient genres in the poem of a medieval humanist: Intertextual aspects of the “De sufficientia votorum suorum” (c. 126 H.) of Baudri de Bourgueil (1…
1995
In the second half of the 11th century, a humanist circle of clerical poets, living around the central valley of the Loire, was writing poetry in classical language and metre. Baudriu of Bougueil, who wrote an impressive corpus of Latin poems, was an expert in the language, style, verse, motifs and genres of the classical and later antique pagan and Christian poetry, and treated theological as well as profane and explicitly ancient topics. About 1107, when he was urged to become bishop and to abandon, his personal independence and quiet monastic life, he gave voice to his disgust of the new ecclesiastical burden by a long poem in elegiac distichs. This paper tries to show the ancient genres…
Expressing the Beauty of the World. Simone Weil and the Responsibility of Literature
2015
En el presente trabajo se abordan diferentes dimensiones de la relación con la literatura de la filósofa francesa de origen judío Simone Weil (1909-1943). En un primer momento de la exposición se atiende a sus consideraciones sobre la responsabilidad de los escritores que, aunque recorren todo su itinerario, tienen como centro neurálgico su colaboración en la revista Cahiers du Sud durante el periodo de Marsella. Posteriormente, se incide en la presencia de la literatura en su obra, gracias a la influencia de su maestro Alain, quien le enseñó a pensar a través de la escritura. Por último, se hace una breve referencia a la tragedia inacabada,Venecia salvada y a sus poemas, aludiendo a su afi…
“Never Some Easy Flashback”
2012
Abstract This paper provides a close reading of Paul Farley’s 160-line poem, “Thorns.” The poem is read in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s celebrated Romantic ballad “The Thorn.” Special attention is given to Farley’s treatment of memory and metaphor: It is shown how the first, exploratory part of the poem elaborates upon the interdependent nature of memory and metaphor, while the second part uses a more regulated form of imagery in its evocation of a generational memory linked to a particular place and time (the working-class Liverpool of the 1960s and 1970s). The tension between the two parts of the poem is reflected in the taut relationship between the poet and a confrontational alter…