Poética de lo otro

Este libro propone un vínculo de unión entre la poesía y la filosofía a través de la imagen poética; claridad inteligente que es, a un tiempo, conciencia vital y estética desplegada en un dibujo único: el ser humano. La autora recrea los instantes privilegiados en que la imagen poética se convierte en un vehículo de acceso a los rincones donde confluyen la imagen, el símbolo y el diálogo, para mostrarnos el descubrimiento de una vocación humana capaz de enseñarnos que la palabra poética y filosófica son una elegía extraordinaria, en parte, porque nos revelan la mejor forma de ...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

The author of the book analyzes five short stories of one of the most significant writers of modern Latin American literature with a mythocritical and symbological approach. From among the endeavors to define and systematize the ancient literary figures for the interpretation of existence (myth, symbol), the author opts for Gilbert Durand's comprehensive system originating in cultural anthropology as a theoretical foundation and starting point for her analytical strategy. The original and dynamic analyses of the short stories, which, at the same time, respect the aspects indicated by the...

Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He shares his bunk with a quiet man named Herr Levin, who seems too gentle for this terrible place. One night Werner is woken by the sound of prison guards yelling. But its not Werner they want, its Herr Levin. Do your magic! they order him. Magic? In Auschwitz?