From Root to Resurrection: Reading Rilke’s Sonnet XIV
Rilke conceives of the dead as a silent force that fertilizes life and anticipates resurrection from the roots.
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Axiom de Litera and Late Surrealism
A critique of the falseness of late surrealism and a vindication of authentic style as a natural structure.
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Is Rereading a Form of Canon?
Rereading for pleasure: the personal canon versus academia and marketing.
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Russia or the Novel as Destiny
The Russian novel, where history and reality merge into symbolic narrative.
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Thomas Mann and ‘The Magic Mountain’: There is no Heroism Greater than that of Weakness
‘The Magic Mountain’: the heroism of weakness in the face of the European crisis.
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Every Wave Contains Its Own Reflection*
Contemporary Hispanic American poetry breaks free from the traditional canon by becoming an intertextual, fragmentary, and ethical act that transcends genres and media to explore new forms of meaning, identity, and language from the periphery and the unstable.
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Flesh and Blood Essay (3)
From the guillotine to text: the fashion of cutting as symbolic and cultural violence.
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The Soldier and the Duke
The similarities between Cervantes and Orsini through portraits, the novel ‘Bomarzo’ and Lepanto, merging art and history.
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Juan Rulfo, Imagining Reality
A general overview of one of the precursors of the Latin American boom, who revolutionized literature by blending rural reality and fantasy.
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On the Subsistence of the Soul and the Visible Dance of Objects
From Thomas Aquinas to Lezama and Peirce, truth does not contradict, but resonates aesthetically as the living form of being.