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This paper attempts a reappraisal of last poems of Argentine poet, anthropologist, and human-rights activist Néstor Perlongher who lived during 1949-92. Many previous critics have either dismissed his mystical poems or explained them in esoteric terms. However, in this paper, Néstor Perlongher's last poems are related, through the application of recent critical assessments of sexuality after AIDS, to earlier masochist aesthetics in his writing, and to socio-political changes that occurred in Argentina and Brazil following the spread of AIDS in the late 1980's.

This paper argues that La Dernière Mode: Gazette du monde et de la famille (1874), the ladies' fashion magazine written by Stéphane Mallarmé under female pseudonyms, represents an under-studied reflection of the author's experience within three intertwining circles: the aesthetic, the social, and the familial. It asserts that the periodical demonstrates Mallarmé's investment in the public social world, his 'family' of French writers and artists, and his domestic family life. These three spheres informed one another, producing an innovative modernist writing project in an unexpected format. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the connection between the self-reflexive poetry characteristic of the modernist period and the emergence of a new respect for animal alterity. In the poetry of Marianne Moore and Francis Ponge specifically, we witness a literary hunt whereby the poets pursue but ultimately fail to capture the representation of real animal experiences. The outcome, which suggests both humans' lack of dominance over other animals and the existence of an alternative, unspoken discourse of animals, points to a modern shift in sensibility towards a new understanding of animals' essential otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intense sensations of not-belonging mark the poetry of the Argentine writer Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972). Her early poems propose a poetic subject who is existentially 'exiled' yet engaged in creating a literary genealogy based on Romanticism and Surrealism. Her poems written in Paris examine the split subject of writing, alongside the possibilities of aesthetic rebellion in language. This paper interrogates the political potential of such a notion of poetic belonging, within the dual context of exile in Argentine literature and the perceived split in Argentine poetics of the 1960s between socially and aesthetically committed writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most criticism of the Tale of Beryn deals principally with the 'continuities' between the text and Chaucer's work. Contrary to this position, the present paper concentrates on the points at which Beryn departs from Chaucer, signalling how the later poet engages with and even challenges his predecessor in productive ways. In particular it focuses on the different attitudes to adolescence put forward by the two poets. It is found that the later writer exploits latent discrepancies in Chaucer's text to initiate a debate on youth, sensing a greater level of danger in adolescence than his forebear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on novela de la selva, a genre of poem, and argues that the derivative proclivities of the genre are parodic, instantiating the novelists' attempt to reclaim their environmental and narrative terrain and to reinscribe them from an indigenous perspective. The poem "Adocución a la Poesia," was composed by the Venezuelan poet and statesman by Andrés Bello in 1823. The poem instantiates a classic colonial encounter between the Latin American writer and the chequered legacy of the imperial past. Novela de la selva flourished almost a century after this poem, but nevertheless perpetuated its discourse of tropical excess and alterity. The paper demonstrates how Europe's colonial legacy in Latin America was not suppressed, but became a catalyst for the self-imaginings of the postcolonial nation.