Focillon, Forms, Lezama
The enduring influence of Focillon’s essay on the poetics and literary theory of José Lezama Lima, where artistic forms are living and timeless entities, with echoes in the Baroque and creative intuition.
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Baroque
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‘Los alivios de Casandra’: Melancholy and Courtly Illusions
Critical edition of ‘Los alivios de Casandra’ by Castillo Solórzano, a Baroque work featuring romantic novels, satirical comedy, and a lipogram without the letter “a,” written in a melancholic and virtuosic style.
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‘The Pentamerone’, or Excess as Form
A major Baroque work that transforms folk tales into a stylistic laboratory of formal exuberance, narrative impurity, and a fusion of the grotesque and the sublime.
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Verbal Alchemy
A study that explores, with philological and poetic sensitivity, a constellation of spells, rituals, and allegories surrounding ayahuasca, the Baroque, and Indo-African-Amazonian syncretism, articulating poetics, ethnology, and psychoanalysis.