Reading anew
Subtitle: José Lezama Lima's rhetorical investigations
By: Juan Pablo Lupi
Series: Ediciones de Iberoamericana. Serie A, Historia y crítica de la literatura -- 56; Editionen der Iberoamericana -- 56.
Publisher: Iberoamericana; Vervuert Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Madrid; Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9783954870158; 9788484896579; 9781936353095; 9783865277091
Subjects: Technique; Literary style; Lezama Lima, José; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
Other titles: Reading anew José Lezama Lima's rhetorical investigations
Description: Analyzes Lezama's use of language and the cultural archive. Shows how the verbal experience in his work constitutes a theoretical reflection about how rhetoric and the imagination shape our conceptions of the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking metaphors and concepts; title: Radical tropologic : "Dador"; title: Tradition, death and poetics : insular transits in "X" y "XX"; title: The speculum of historiography; title: Allegory and futurity in the Eras imaginarias.