Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics is the first English-language monograph on this Chilean visual artist and poet (1942–1993). It has two principal aims: first, to introduce Martínez’s poetry and radical aesthetics to English-speaking audiences, and second, to carefully analyze key aspects of his literary production. The readings undertaken in this book explore Martínez’s intricate textual formalisms, the self-effacement that characterizes his poetry, and the tension between his local (Latin American, Chilean) aspect and the cosmopolitanism or transnationalism that insists on the global relevance of his work. Through his artistic engagement with a number of esoteric concepts—for example, his recuperation of pataphysical “logic” and Oulipian combinatorics, mathematical reasoning, Eastern thought, and the historical avant-gardes—Martínez creates a rigorous quasi-system of citation and erasure that is a philosophical poetics as well as a poetic philosophy. Juan Luis Martínez’s Philosophical Poetics thus addresses all major publications by this groundbreaking Chilean artist and poet in order to read his difficult, experimental texts by focusing on the tension he creates between philosophical, political, literary, and scientific discourses.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-12-11
Mått:161 x 237 x 24 mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Associated University Presses
ISBN:9781611486070

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Scott Weintraub is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire.

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[This book] is the first study in English on the poetic production of Martinez. . . . Scott Weintraub succeeds with this study because it introduces the radical aesthetic of the poet in the English-speaking world and also carefully analyzes the key aspects of his literary output . . . We could say that the surprise text, text and unspeakable paradox text lines are synthesized and put into crisis the notion and coding of the poetry of Juan Luis Martinez.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Invisibility of Juan Luis Martínez in the Chilean Scene of Writing Chapter I: The Philosophy of the Book: La nueva novela’s Philosophical PoeticsChapter II: The Book Within the Book: Math, Science and Politics in La nueva novelaChapter III: The Death of the Poets: Mourning for the Future in La poesía chilenaChapter IV: The Idea of the Double, Absence of an Author: Poemas del otroChapter V: The Copy as Original: Aproximación del Principio de Incertidumbre a un proyecto poéticoConclusion: A Virtual Martínez and A Book Composed of Ruins and Detritus: El poeta anónimo (o el eterno presente de Juan Luis Martínez)Bibliography and Works Cited: Works by and about Juan Luis MartínezIndex