Writings and Rewritings in Hispanic American Literatures

Publisher: Department of Arts and Humanities Università degli Studi di Salerno (DipSum)

Series: Collection of Studies and Texts. From ancient Babel to the encounters of Modernity

Pages: 312

Language: Italian, Spanish

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-29914

Abstract: If, as one conjectures in Historia de la eternidad, “desde Homero todas las metáforas íntimas, necesarias, fueron ya advertidas y escritas”, then a principle of repetitiveness̀, redundancy and emulation governs the construction of literature, as a rewriting of the already written rather than as an invention of the new. This is an idea that Borges exploited insatiably in his palimpsests, and 20th-century literary criticism has probed in depth, from different theoretical perspectives, between linguistics and semiology, structuralism and reception theory, eroding the conventional conception of the work as the original product of an isolated and defined subjectivity, bringing attention to the text as an intricate weave of citations from earlier writings. With the aim of fostering reflection on this complex theoretical and problematic field, the customary Days of Hispanic American Literature were held at the University of Salerno between 11 and 13 May 2022. The texts collected in this volume, from the traces of the fertile debates of those days, solicit the question of "writings and rewritings"; from a plurality ofdisciplinary interests and methodological approaches.