"Combustible matter": towards a poetic of love

Authors

  • Elena Rodriguez-Guridi Le Moyne College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302253

Keywords:

Josefa Parra, tempus fugit, misfortune, hope, memory, immortality, passion

Abstract

This essay is devoted to the poet Josefa Parra’s collection Combustible Matter, which explores the process of love through the dialectic between life and death. Parra’s hermeneutics inscribes the transcendent encounter with the other within the tragic temporality of mortal being. This study aims to demonstrate how, in Parra’s exegesis, she reveals a vital optimism that conceives memory and the word as the means of exorcising the transient nature and disappointment of love. The recursive act of reading, for the poet linked with rebirth, reawakens the possibility of the transcendent that is lost in mortal existence.

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Author Biography

  • Elena Rodriguez-Guridi, Le Moyne College

    Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras

    Profesora titular de español

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Published

2018-07-09

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Dossier

How to Cite

Rodriguez-Guridi, E. (2018). "Combustible matter": towards a poetic of love. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, 30, 181-187. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2018302253
Received 2017-11-13
Accepted 2018-04-07
Published 2018-07-09