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New titles Juan de la Cuesta-<br />

the poetics of word and image in the Hispanic avant-garde<br />

Catharine E. Wall<br />

The Poetics of Word and Image in the Hispanic Avant-Garde is a literary history of verbal-visual relations in the<br />

Hispanic avant-garde in Europe and Latin America from 1909 through the 1920s. The introduction shows how<br />

foundational writings by Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo de Torre, and Ramón Gómez de la Serna both contribute<br />

implicitly to the ut pictura poesis polemic in the 1920s and confirm an overriding visual impulse in the avantgarde<br />

aesthetic. In rough chronological order with a predominantly national focus in each chapter, the book<br />

traces the roots of Hispanic vanguardism from its rise in Spain and France (1909-1922) through ultraísmo and<br />

martinfierrismo in Argentina (1921-1927), estridentismo in Mexico (also 1921-1927), and the new literature in<br />

1920s Uruguay (1919-1931).<br />

Each chapter opens with an introductory survey of relevant chronological, aesthetic, and bibliographic<br />

issues. Multiple sections in each chapter highlight the most provocative manifestations of the visual aesthetic.<br />

Some of these focus on an individual writer (Gómez de la Serna, Eduardo González Lanuza), an important work<br />

(Oliverio Girondo’s “Croquis en la arena,” Manuel Maples Arce’s “Prisma”), or a significant theoretical issue (the<br />

ultraísta prism aesthetic, Borges’s interartistic theory of metaphor), while others are surveys (book illustration<br />

in estridentismo, the visual aesthetic in Uruguayan poetry). This experimentation takes the shape of illustrated<br />

texts, visual writing in various genres, transpositions, and visual allusions, among other verbal-visual constructs.<br />

Drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography are the principal visual media relevant to the literary topics under discussion. Vicente Huidobro,<br />

Borges, José Juan Tablada, and other canonical avant-gardists necessarily appear together with less-studied, peripheral, or even forgotten writers and<br />

works such as Alfredo Mario Ferreiro, Pedro Figari, Germán List Arzubide’s El movimiento estridentista, and an obscure visual text by Diego Rivera.<br />

Several ancillary features enhance the scope of the book: a chronology, a glossary, a bibliographic essay, four appendices, and the most relevant<br />

images available for reproduction. The chronology highlights the crucial moments of verbal-visual innovation in the Hispanic avant-garde, from the<br />

initial musings of cubism and futurism, continuing with the reception in Spain and Latin America of the futurist aesthetic in 1909, and extending<br />

into the early 1930s. The glossary serves as a ready reference to the aesthetics and the terminology of the myriad movements, groups, and tendencies<br />

of the Hispanic and international avant-garde. The bibliographic essay surveys and evaluates the bibliographies and the anthologies of primary<br />

sources that offer comprehensive access to the broad context of the Hispanic literary avant-garde. The Poetics of Word and Image in the Hispanic Avant-<br />

Garde—a noteworthy contribution to the fields of Hispanic literature, the avant-garde, and word-and-image studies—exemplifies the burgeoning<br />

importance of comprehensive, interartistic, and transatlantic approaches to avant-garde studies.<br />

ISBN 978-1-58871-188-5 (PB), $29.95<br />

rabelais, Bajtin y Formalismo en la narrativa de sergio pitol<br />

Genaro J. Pérez<br />

Esta monografía sobre el galardonado escritor Mexicano identifica, demuestra y analiza el atrevimiento, la<br />

originalidad y la virtuosidad formal de Sergio Pitol. El primer capítulo describe el contrapunteo narrativo de<br />

los dos narradores de El tañido de una flauta y el resentimiento del artista al no ser reconocido en su propio país.<br />

Se analiza al pícaro mexicano en el extranjero como personaje protagonista-de-película e, irónicamente, de<br />

novela. Juegos florales, analizada en el capítulo 2, es un ejercicio metaficticio que desconstruye las vicisitudes de<br />

la vida conyugal y la dificultad del escribir. El tercer capítulo examina la primera novela del denominado Tríptico<br />

del Carnaval, El desfile del amor, ofreciendo una exegesis. Dicha obra podría considerarse como una novela<br />

enigmática, no sólo porque el protagonista se encuentra involucrado en la investigación de un crimen, sino<br />

también por ser una comedia de enredos y una comedia de modales–una especie de “cuadro de costumbres” de<br />

la sociedad mexicana. La narración sobresale igualmente por su ironía latente desde el título hasta el cuadro<br />

final. Las dos novelas siguientes, Domar a la divina garza y La vida conyugal, analizadas en el cuarto y quinto<br />

capítulos, retratan una guerra sin cuartel entre los géneros: Domar retrata a Dante sufriendo los estragos de<br />

haber perdido la batalla con su rival “académico” y La vida presenta a una esposa probablemente abusada y<br />

cruelmente burlada por el marido. El estudio se propone presentar al lectorado una visión panorámica a la vez<br />

que analítica de la narrativa del reciente Premio Cervantes mexicano.<br />

ISBN 978-1-58871-201-1 (HB), $24.95<br />

12 Juan de la cuesta — Hispanic MonograpHs 2012 www.Juandelacuesta.coM

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