Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted much on my LA blog lately, but as my defense is tomorrow and I’m preparing my presentation for it I’ve gone back over some theory and I wrote a couple of brainstorms on love. A lot of it is poetically driven but I’ll tailor it later:
Love
Love is subjective: it involves [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While cleaning the stove I came up with some thoughts on love which I don’t know where to put in my proposal. So for now they are going up on the blog until I can figure out where to put them:
Love can be either erotic (self-centered) or Sacrificial (other centered). In the first [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Terry Eagleton has once again saved my ample grad-student behind. This guy really merits at least a fan-club. After all, how many Christian Marxist literary critics are there?
In exploring the concept of political poetry, I keep running into the Latin American equivalent of the Brecht Lukacs debate over the nature and aesthetics [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Reading Hugh Friedrich’s book on modern poetry pushes me to re-think the question of what exactly is subjectivity and how it relates to poetry. Up until now I have pretty much taken it for granted that with the advent of modernity poetry in general and lyric poetry in particular became more closely attuned to subjective realities than objective ones. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I am well into Josefina Saldaña Portillo’s book The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas in the Age of Development. This is a fascinating study, it lays the groundwork for exactly what I would like to discuss in my thesis with regards to the idea of revolution and love. Saldaña-Portillo discusses the underlying thread of subjectivism in both the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Is poetry a useful medium for expressing political and social realities? This was one of the questions on the exam which I am still trying to find an adequate and satisfying answer for. I get the feeling that my dissertation will end up being an attempt to “salvage” the reputation of socially committed poetry by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leopoldo Lugones’ prologue to Lunario Sentimental provides a strong focal point with which to link the various diverse poetries of the 20th Century. In spite of their different aesthetic approaches and themes, each of these poets in his own way views poetry as an act of service to aesthetics, to language, to society, to humanity [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A little bit of everything…
José Emilio Pacheco: No me preguntes como pasa el tiempo.
Pacheco’s text fits very well on either list, and initially he was on the second list dealing with political poetry but got shuffled around. Much of the poems in this work are comments on and reflections of history and the role of [...]
