This article studies three aetia in the Argonautica that have metapoetic significance as comments on Apollonius’ Callimachean poetics. In the first aetion (1.1132–1139), the Pyrrhic dance reflects ...the Argonauts’ key role as active agents in the creation of the plot and shows its Callimachean allegiance in the repurposing of traditional martial imagery. In the second one (4.1719–1730), the meagerness of the Argonauts’ offering to Apollo at Anaphe and the light jesting between Medea’s maidens and the Argonauts are programmatic reflections of the ‘lean’ poetics advocated by Callimachus in the Aetia ‘prologue’ (fr. 1). The third aetion (4.1765– 1772), by closing the Argonautica in correspondence with the beginning of Callimachus’ Aetia, stresses the close connection between Apollonius and Callimachus. In it, the quick pace, lightness and playfulness of the hydrophoria at Aegina mirrors the fast coming to an end and happy tone that closes the Argonautica.
In satire 1, 5, Horace gives a detailed account of the journey he undertook from Rome to Brundisium to accompany Maecenas on a diplomatic mission. The memorial value of the poem is not obvious: it ...does not present itself as a monumentum intended to immortalize the political action of the Aretino under the second triumvirate, and while the poet gives a representation of himself, it seems to have above all a metapoetical function. It is by considering the construction of memory as a process and by putting satire 1, 5 in perspective with odes or epistles in which it is also a question of travel and Maecenas that we can measure the memory value of the Iter Brundisinum. Satire 1, 5 inaugurates series of poems that have constructed and immortalized the image of Horace as an amicus priuatus of Maecenas, as an eternal proficiens or as the poet of the aurea mediocritas.
In this article, I read the Dutch poet Alfred Schaffer’s volume of poetry Mens dier ding (Man animal thing) against the background of transnationalism. I employ transnationalism as critical or ...hermeneutic perspective and focus on the identity of the author, the themes worked out in the volume and the use of anachronism and metapoetical references as literary strategies in support of the transnational nature of the text. Reference is made to the way in which Schaffer’s biography (his Dutch-Aruban descent, his movement between the Netherlands and South Africa, his views on poetry) facilitates a transnational reading of his volume Mens dier ding based on the history of the Zulu king Shaka as depicted in Thomas Mofolo’s novel Chaka (published in 1925). The article also reads Mens dier ding against the background of the idea that transnational literature is a particular kind of literature that emerges at a specific point in history and deals with issues and themes associated with imperialism, colonisation, decolonisation and globalisation such as migration, displacement, cultural hybridity, identity, citizenship and the status of refugees. This reading is prompted by the fact that Schaffer displaces the historical Shaka to the present and eventually also represent him as an asylum seeker in an unnamed country. I discuss the volume’s formal features, the transnational conversation with Mofolo’s novel, the use of anachronism and the insertion of metapoetical elements in the text as literary strategies to deal with transnational issues such as migration, displacement, racial hierarchies, inequality and refugee experience.
A partir del siglo XX, se ha desarrollado en poesía un amplio interés por las reflexiones metapoéticas y metaliterarias, de modo que en la actualidad perviven las composiciones que centran su ...atención en el propio discurso o en la literatura como construcción artística. En este contexto los poetas españoles contemporáneos han acudido a la publicidad para la escritura de metapoemas. Se analizarán en estas páginas los siguientes aspectos: 1) la inserción del eslogan en una propuesta poética personal, 2) el uso del texto publicitario de los mass media en la sátira social, 3) la capacidad para generar poemas de la publicidad de a pie, y 4) la reelaboración metaliteraria del lenguaje de los negocios de compraventa.
This article reads the work of Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, an activist and spoken-word poet who, as a British Muslim woman and postcolonial critic, is uniquely placed to articulate postcolonial concerns ...such as the mental colonization caused by colonial languages and the epistemic violence of colonial discourses. Further, an analysis of the author's subject position demonstrates how Manzoor-Khan's work vividly illustrates the predicament of the subaltern fighting to be heard. Her didactic metapoetry translates familiar postcolonial concerns into the 21st century by constituting a hybrid form between poetry and academic discourse, by introducing the vocabulary of postcolonial theory into the casual language of spoken-word poetry, and by employing rhetorical strategies that problematize the relationship between poet and audience as well as the rhetorical burden of producing "humanising" poetry. By analysing how she maintains a tense relationship with her audience, the article complicates what may be misunderstood as straightforward political poetry.
The article discusses the metapoetic import of Idyll 15. The tapestries and the Adonis song evidence a metapoetic significance, as well as the votive offerings described in this song. In addition, ...throughout the poem, the association of cloths and poetry is encouraged. The poem functions as a “metapoetic manifesto” designed to indicate the poetic qualities defended by Theocritus. At the same time, it promotes itself as an example of the refined literature and art promoted by the Ptolemaic court and by Arsinoe, and introduces a recognition and appraisal of Arsinoe as responsible for the patronage and promotion of these forms of art.
This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica, an epic from the late first century AD on the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). At first sight, these narratives seem ...to be loosely ‘embedded’ in the epic, having their own plot and being situated in a different time or place than the main narrative. A closer look reveals, however, that they foreshadow or recall elements that are found elsewhere in the epic. In this way, they serve as ‘mirrors’ of the main narrative. The larger part of this book consists of four detailed case studies.
Poemas de la isla, segundo poemario publicado por Josefina de la Torre Millares (1907-2002), es, probablemente, el libro poético que guarda un mayor grado de afinidad con la literatura de vanguardia. ...Con este artículo mostramos algunos de los lazos que vinculan estrechamente esta obra con la estética vanguardista, como son la conciencia metapoética, la mirada creadora de alusiones, el subjetivismo y el intimismo.
Classical mythology functions as a highly renewable cultural energy of great efficiency when measuring the historical subject in its time and space. In the work of Aurora Luque, set in a deep ...dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity, the use of mythology is intensified until becoming the measurement of her poetic world. This aesthetic development of mythology is analyzed in her work, Camaradas de Ícaro, which includes contemporary locus amoenus and lexicons drawn from the fields of politics, technology or advertising. This paper examines subversions and updates of classic mythemes associated with the mythical narration, and the renovation and updating of classic symbols associated with eroticism. With the analysis of all these aspects, this research verifies how, through rewritings and reinterpretations of mythology, Luque finds an original poetic proposal, as well as an ascetic path that accounts for both the modern world and the time in which it is circumscribed.
La mitología clásica funciona como una energía cultural renovable de gran eficacia para medir al sujeto histórico en sus tiempos y sus espacios. En la obra de Aurora Luque, situada en la vía del profundo diálogo entre tradición y modernidad, el uso de las mitologías se intensifica hasta convertirse en la medida de su mundo poético. Revisamos el manejo estético de la mitología en su obra Camaradas de Ícaro, el cual incluye locus amoenus contemporáneos y lexicones extraídos de los ámbitos de la política, la tecnología o la publicidad. Examinamos subversiones y actualizaciones de mitemas clásicos asociados al relato mítico, y la renovación y actualización de simbólicas clásicas asociadas al erotismo. Con el análisis de todos estos aspectos, comprobamos cómo mediante reescrituras y reinterpretaciones de la mitología Luque encuentra una propuesta poética original, además de un camino de ascesis que da cuenta tanto del mundo moderno como de la época en la que se circunscribe.
En su dimensión simbólica, la mirada hacia el propio lenguaje constituye uno de los temas principales de la poesía contemporánea. Esta naturaleza ficcional se relaciona con la mímesis aristotélica. ...En este marco de poética moderna y de sus presupuestos metapoéticos, la lírica de Rosa Romojaro, vinculada al neobarroco y al neopurismo, contiene en una de sus líneas una reflexión modélica sobre la metapoesía que alcanza todo el proceso poético: la invención, el texto, la escritura y la lectura. Su obra también ofrece una modélica conciencia teórica del proceso de escritura del poema.
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