Juan Luis Martínez's philosophical poetics / Scott Weintraub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weintraub, Scott, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martínez, Juan Luis, 1942-1993--Criticism and interpretation.

Martínez, Juan Luis.

Martínez, Juan Luis, 1942-1993.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Juan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics is the first English-language monograph on this Chilean visual artist and poet (1942-1993). It has two principal aims: first, to introduce Martinez's poetry and radical aesthetics to English-speaking audiences, and second, to carefully analyze key aspects of his literary production. The readings undertaken in this book explore Martinez's intricate textual formalisms, the self-effacement that characterizes his poetry, and the tension between his local (Latin American, Chilean) aspect and the cosmopolitanism or transnationalism that insists on the global relevance of his work. Through his artistic engagement with a number of esoteric concepts-for example, his recuperation of pataphysical "logic" and Oulipian combinatorics, mathematical reasoning, Eastern thought, and the historical avant-gardes-Martinez creates a rigorous quasi-system of citation and erasure that is a philosophical poetics as well as a poetic philosophy. Juan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics thus addresses all major publications by this groundbreaking Chilean artist and poet by focusing on the tension he creates between philosophical, political, literary, and scientific discourses. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Philosophy of the Book: La nueva novela's Philosophical Poetics 31

2 The Book within the Book: Math, Science, and Politics in La nueva novela 63

3 The Death of the Poets: Mourning for the Future in La poesia chilena 107

4 The Idea of the Double, Absence of an Author: Poemas del otro 133

5 The Copy as Original: Aproximación del Principio de Incertidumbre a un proyecto poético 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611486070

1611486076

OCLC:

885226232