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In this paper, I propose that the novels Rosa Cuchillo and La hora azul project individual processes of mourning in a mythical social order that limits itself to reproduce the phantom of the enclosed nation (Ubilluz) as a (seudo) proposal to solve the internal conflict that took place in Peru between 1980-2000. In Rosa Cuchillo the main character, Rosa Cuchillo, goes through a process of mourning due to the loss of his terrorist son, Liborio, whereas in La hora azul the main character, Adrián Ormache, undergoes a process of mourning due to the crisis of the idealized paternal figure he had of his dead military father. These individual experiences of mourning result in an opening to the social order by means of the myth of the eternal return (Debord) in Rosa Cuchillo and the myth of progress (Benjamin) in La hora azul. Located in a mythical time, the social consequences of the novels become apparent: they reproduce proposals that do not question the phantom of the enclosed nation, since Rosa Cuchillo proposes a pachacuti of runas, whereas La hora azul suggests a form of tutelary ethics that maintains the status quo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Adolfo Bioy Casares is unanimously recognized as an important narrator, his novel Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969) has not attracted the critical attention as other of their fictions has. This paper postulates the existence of an allegorical tradition in argentine modern literature and consider this novel one of the central fictions of that stream, because, although it's far from realism, could not be read as a fantastic narration. To prove this statement, this essay exposed a political reading of the novel to show how it explore a unique construction of barbarism located in Peronism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In El Torito de los Muchachos (1830), Luis Pérez deploys voices, not always Gauchos and Federalists, but sometimes Uniterian and literate, who utter fictional truths in the form of a confession. In a historical moment in which the press was a vehicle of influence on public opinion, Pérez aims his publications toward broad swaths of the public to include of illiterate groups through oral readings. This paper analyzes the ways in which these confessions allowed truths to stand up amid a war of words, as they sought to occupy an imagined public space on whose field discursive conflicts were fought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes the possibility of studying Peruvian gongorism at its different stages, from an early and exalted assimilation of stylistic gongorisms to the critical maturity of the Apologético by Juan Espinosa Medrano. I will revise theoretical and practical discussions on the genre of epic poetry posed by Fernando de Valverde in his poem Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Copacabana en el Perú. This examination will reveal that the consolidation of gongorism in Peru was not, as has been thought, without discussions and hesitations regarding the classical methods and the items associated with the new poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the perspectives of everyday aesthetics and hermeneutics, this paper analyzes Pequod (1995), a Vitor Ramil novel set in the Brazilian pampa and conceived around the unique features offered by the experience of cold weather. By analyzing the thoughts and actions of Pequod's characters, our main goal is to point out how a vital relationship with weather leads to an existential stance, or philosophy of life, aimed at understanding the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to conduct a reflection on the new reality that has occurred in the context of the present discipline of the Classical Tradition: the emergence of Reception Studies, in order to rereading Greek and Latin Classics over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Dos partidos en lucha (1875), and especially in La bolsa de huesos (1896), Eduardo Holmberg configures fictional narrations in which Darwinian theories and the contemporary debates and dilemmas of science acquire a significant centrality. In both cases, and in addition to an emphatic adherence to Darwinism and a clear apology for the scope of scientific practice, it is possible to detect a problematization of the institutional place of science, its feasible connections with the society and politics, and its role within the state structure. As a correlate, both narrations reveal tensions around and reformulations of one of their central axes, which is also central to the work of Charles Darwin: the modes of thinking, emphasizing or relativizing the link between human life and animal life. The aim of this paper is to address the interaction between these two issues in Holmberg's fictions, through a contrastive textual analysis that contemplates the cultural context of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses intertextuality and its functions in the film Donkey Xote (2007, José Pozo), an audiovisual adaptation for a double addressee (children/adults) of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes, 1604). Intertextuality can be identified in most text types, and it implies a receiver's active role as some cultural knowledge is required. The study proves that intertextual references contribute to construct the discourse, they also have a didactic aim trying to introduce children playfully to a universal canonical work by placing them in a familiar context (many intertexts are kenotypes, that is, references to modernity within an antique framework). Moreover, the film includes a lot of intertextual elements, most of them with a humorous function, which are complex and are specifically addressed to an adult audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The living universe of Renaissance, with its legacy from the Antiquity and the Middle Ages, had an Early Mexican expression in the late Renaissance or Baroque period: sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In this paper I will essay an account of Marsilio Ficino's teachings on sor Juana's concept of a sympathetic and pneumatic universe, and of the hidden meanings and echoes in her writings from other accomplished creators from the 15th to the 17th centuries who were not only poets, philosophers or theologians, but also musicians and composers. Although we have already been able to read excellent essays on the musical features in sor Juana's work, there are still uninvestigated areas concerning the philosophical and spiritual relationship that she established with the musical art. Besides commenting overlooked passages by Pietro Cerone which are relevant regarding sor Juana, I will also explore the parallels between her and Franchino Gaffurio and Bartolomé Ramos Pareja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to examine the process of novel's autonomy institutionalization in Colombia, during the first half of the 20th century. This research draws upon mostly primary sources including texts of Colombian literature history and criticism as well as the monographic studies about the Colombian novel published between 1925 and 1975. The period from 1943 to 1975, specifically, accounts for the way in which the main agents of the Colombian literary field approached differently the characteristics and the role of the novel in the Colombian society of the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel Perfect Preterite by Hugo Foguet appears in the map of Argentinian literature as a piece of writing that, at the moment of its publication (1983) and from the periphery of the canon, breaks apart from any expected narrative produced inland, that is, a kind of realism that presented remote, still and atavistic provincial towns. This paper analyzes Foguet's text from the notion of folly realism, coined by Eduardo Rosenzvaig in the context of the Argentinian and Latin American literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main intention of this paper is to define the substantial differences between the epic hero, constituted by Odysseus, and the late Antiquity hero, personified by Apollonius of Tyre. These differences show certain keys to understand the late Antiquity hero, where the ideal derives from a Christian rereading of Virgil: the new hero of this time is Christ, with Aeneas as background. In order to do this, I analyze the intersections between pagan and Christian topics that take place in Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri, especially in chapter 12, considering that this novel reuses and transforms some Homeric motifs using other traditions. According to my proposal, this feature responds to a late Antiquity --and possibly Christian-- sensibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]