Centres & Peripheries: The Global PreModern Conference
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The elective cenacolo known as the ‘Residencia de estudiantes de Madrid’ constituted a unicum in the context of the European vanguard experience during the XX century. In this environment, the so called ‘Generación del ’27’ – the most representative intellectual and artistic tendency of the Spanish ‘Edad del Plata’ cultural history – had its main formative and popular epicentre. One of the most important members of this tendency, Federico Garcia Lorca, produced here his greatest intellectual efforts, both on the artistic and intellectual side. Amongst these activities, the representative event of the ‘Generación del ’27’ was the conference for the centenary of the death of Luis de Góngora – a Spanish cultural icon of the ‘Siglo de oro’ and the inspiring model for the generation that takes his name (1627-1927). This episode will become a summa and a watershed for Lorca’s intellectual experience as well as for the European culture of the XX century. Lorca’s speech ‘La imagen poética de Don Luis de Góngora’ could be considered the manifesto of Góngora’s baroque poetry besides his own poetry and criticism – and of all the surrealist avant-garde –, manifesting the important role played by Baroque Aesthetics in modern and contemporary literature. The principal thesis concerned the core of the metaphorization process for the poetical and critical experience. According to Lorca, the aesthetic-hermeneutic experience is definitive metaphor-driven. Moreover, his idea of a “large metaphor” – i.e., a sort of “synthetical metaphor” – opens to the inter-semiotic interpretation of the metaphorical process: a cognitive-emotional process which, starting from a “centre” (‘núcleo central’ or ‘forma’), crosses a “periphery” of sense and feeling (‘redonda perspectiva’ or ‘radio de acción’) to guide the literary experience, both from the aesthetics and hermeneutics perspective. |
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