In seeking to define “love” within the framework of Revolution, I find that fundamentally I am asked to straddle two fields of enquiry, that of psychoanalysis which deals with the composition of the ego in its binary relationship to the other, and that of social theory which examines the relationship between ideas and political movements. [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Nerudian Jouissance
Posted in Thesis on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Political Poetry
Posted in Thesis on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing from yesterday’s post, how does one define socially committed poetry if, as Adorno suggests, lyric poetry is by its very nature a form of protest against the alienating condition of modernity? There is, in Latin America, a distinctive school of poetry which is explicitly committed to the act of social criticism of whom [...]
More on Adorno
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The key passage from Adorno’s article “On Lyric Poetry and Society” which I cited in the previous blog post brings up a lot of related issues around language itself and its relationship between subjective and objective realities. Adorno refers to the sublime lyric as “the subject intoning itself in language until the voice of [...]
Lyric Poetry and the Other Kind
Posted in Thesis on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Lyricism” like pornography is one of those “know it when you see it” categories. It slips in and out of most attempts at definition, and yet at the same time, it would be difficult to talk about ”love poetry”, even political love poetry, without bringing up the topic of lyricism. Mark Jeffreys, one of the more recent critics to address the relationship between lyricism and ideology, [...]
Avant-Garde Poetry and Politics
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It seems that not a few of the critics who try to characterize the major themes of 20th century Latin American poetry are fond of dividing poets into two separate groups, or what Enrique Foffani calls a “regimen bipolar” : teh avant-garde poets who explored art as itself, and the socially committed poets who wrote poems about political issues [...]
