Teoría de la literatura de los formalistas rusos

Teoría de la literatura de los formalistas rusos
Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: Siglo XXI Editores México
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 6070305248

Entre 1915 Y 1930 un grupo de jóvenes lingüistas y poetas rusos, ligado a los movimientos artísticos de vanguardia, revolucionó el campo de los estudios literarios. Ese laboratorio de experimentación crítica, que ha tenido vastas influencias en el desarrollo estructuralista posterior, modificó el modo de analizar las obras: desde entonces, el sentido de un relato o un poema no emana del proyecto biográfico o intelectual de su autor ni de la tradición literaria, sino de la construcción misma de ese texto, de las decisiones estilísticas y la organización interna que definen su forma. Este cambio de foco generó muchos rechazos y debates, a la vez que se convirtió en el punto de partida de la crítica literaria moderna. Mi actitud frente a los formalistas rusos ha cambiado en diversas oportunidades, lo cual, después de todo, no es nada sorprendente pues se me volvieron íntimos hace más de veinte años. La primera impresión consistla en este descubrimiento: se podía hablar de la literatura en forma alegre, irreverente, inventiva; al mismo tiempo, sus textos trataban de aquello de lo que nadie parecía preocuparse y que, sin embargo, yo había creído siempre esencial, de aquello que se denominaba la "técnica literaria", Fue esta admiración lo que me llevó a buscar texto tras texto y, luego, a traducirlos. En un segundo momento creí percibir en sus escritos la presencia de un proyecto "teórico", el de la constitución de una poética que, sin embargo, no era forzosamente coherente ni se había realizado a fondo. Por último, en el curso de un tercer período, empecé a percibir a los formalistas como un fenómeno histórico: lo que me interesaba no era tanto el contenido de sus ideas como su lógica interna y su lugar en la historia de las ideologías.

The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy

The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy
Author: Slav N. Gratchev
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-10-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1793615756

The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, theatre, and philosophy to analyze the ambitions of avant-garde artists. Together, these essays highlight the interdisciplinary scope of the historic avant-garde and the interconnectedness of its artists. Contributors analyze topics such as abstraction and estrangement across the arts, the imaginary dialogue between Lev Yakubinsky and Mikhail Bakhtin, the problem of the “masculine ethos” in the Russian avant-garde, the transformation of barefoot dancing, Kazimir Malevich’s avant-garde poetic experimentations, the ecological imagination of the Polish avant-garde, science-fiction in the Russian avant-garde cinema, and the almost forgotten history of the avant-garde children’s literature in Germany. The chapters in this collection open a new critical discourse about the avant-garde movement in Europe and reshape contemporary understandings of it.

Short Story Theories

Short Story Theories
Author:
Publisher: Brill
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9401208395

Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics, this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on the most recent trends and contemporary authors. Theorizations about genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a multiplicity of perspectives and take the form of historical and aesthetic considerations, gender-centered accounts, and examinations that attend to reader-response theory, cognitive patterns, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, postmodern techniques, and contemporary uses of minimalist forms. Looking ahead, this collection traces the evolution of the short story from Chaucer through the Romantic writings of Poe to the postmodern developments and into the twenty-first century. This volume will prove of interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of the short story and of literature in general. In addition, the readability and analytical transparence of these essays make them accessible to a more general readership interested in fiction.

Pragmática Lingüística y Diccionario

Pragmática Lingüística y Diccionario
Author: Josefina Albert Galera
Publisher: Palibrio
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1463324847

Pragmática Lingüística y Diccionario Partiendo de los antecedentes históricos y las motivaciones que condujeron a la preocupación por el lenguaje, en el capítulo I se establecen los fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos (Pragmática Lingüística) para el análisis de la lengua del DRAE. Después de establecer los parámetros que atañen a la lengua del Diccionario, la autora analiza (capítulo II) algunos de los artículos más representativos del Diccionario académico, que funcionan como centros de interés en la medida en que son expresión de juicios sobre la sociedad. El objeto de los capítulos III y IV se centran en el estudio del significante léxico en relación con la aparición de nuevas palabras y la desaparición de otras, así como del significado léxico, en su doble vertiente de información gramatical y contenido léxico. Distinguimos en este apartado la definición en metalengua de contenido (definición propia) de la definición en metalengua de signo (definición impropia). Un grupo importante de entradas léxicas funcionan como palabras performativas, es decir, al usarlas se convierten en actos de habla. El último capítulo está dedicado al análisis de las formas complejas. On the basis of the historical precedents and motivations that led to the concern about the language, chapter I establishes the theoretical and methodological base (Linguistic Pragmatics) for the analysis of the language of the DRAE (Diccionario de la Real Academia Española). After having established the parameters concerning the language of the dictionary, the author analyses (chapter II) the most representative articles of the academic Dictionary, which works as the center of interest because they are an expression of judgments about the society. The object of chapters III and IV is the study of the appearance of new words and the disappearance of others, as well as of the lexical meaning and grammatical information of the same ones. We do the distinction between the definition in metalengua of the content (own definition) and the definition in metalengua of the sign (the improper definition). An important group of lexical entries function as performative words, which means that when we use them, they are changed into speech acts. The last chapter is dedicated to the analysis of set phrases or locutions.

Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes
Author: Robert Brody
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-02-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0292762321

Carlos Fuentes is a master of modern world literature. With the translation of his major works into English and other languages, his reputation has surpassed the boundaries of his native Mexico and of Hispanic literature and has become international. Now each new novel stimulates popular and scholarly reviews in periodicals from Mexico City and Buenos Aires to Paris and New York. Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer's work. The range and diversity of this critical view are remarkable and reflect similar characteristics in the creative work of Carlos Fuentes, a man of formidable intellectual energy and curiosity. The whole of Fuentes' work is encompassed by Luis Leal as he explores history and myth in the writer's narrative. Insightful new views of single works are provided by other well-known scholars, such as Roberto González Echevarría, writing on Fuentes' extraordinary Terra Nostra, and Margaret Sayers Peden, exploring Distant Relations, for which she served as authorized translator. Here too are fresh approaches to Fuentes' other novels, among them Where the Air Is Clear, Aura, and The Hydra Head, as well as an examination by John Brushwood of the writer's short fiction and a look by Merlin Forster at Fuentes the playwright. Lanin Gyurko reaches outside Fuentes' canon for his fascinating study of the influence of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane on The Death of Artemio Cruz. Manuel Durán and George Wing consider Fuentes in his role as critic of both literature and art. Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View has been prepared with the writer's many English-speaking readers in mind. Quotations are most frequently from standard, readily available English translations of Fuentes' works. A valuable chronology of the writer's life rounds off the volume.

The Latin American Casebook

The Latin American Casebook
Author: Juan F. Gonzalez-Bertomeu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2016-04-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317026195

Traditionally relegated because of political pressure and public expectations, courts in Latin America are increasingly asserting a stronger role in public and political discussions. This casebook takes account of this phenomenon, by offering a rigorous and up-to-date discussion of constitutional adjudication in Latin America in recent decades. Bringing to the forefront the development of constitutional law by Latin American courts in various subject matters, the volume aims to highlight a host of creative arguments and solutions that judges in the region have offered. The authors review and discuss innovative case law in light of the countries’ social, political and legal context. Each chapter is devoted to a discussion of a particular area of judicial review, from freedom of expression to social and economic rights, from the internalization of human rights law to judicial checks on the economy, from gender and reproductive rights to transitional justice. The book thus provides a very useful tool to scholars, students and litigants alike.