Dorfsman, Marco Luis.

Heterogeneity of Being : On Octavio Paz's Poetics of Similitude. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (145 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Turns and Returns, Vueltas y Vueltas -- 2 The Inheritance of the Labyrinth -- 3 From the Subject to the Negative and Back -- 4 The Ancient Quarrel between History and Poetry -- 1. The Lyric, Identity, and Modernity -- 2. History, Difference, and Temporality -- 5 Heads or Tails -- 1. Heads: Identity or Difference -- 2. Tails: Poetry, Hybridity, Thought -- 6 Sun Stone -- 1. First Turn -- 2. Return on the Way to a Conclusion: The Threshold of Saying -- 7 On the Field of Representation -- Notes -- Index.

Heterogeneity of Being goes beyond the standard interpretations of Octavio Paz as a thinker of national identity and proposes a radical rethinking of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Dorfsman analyzes how Paz's "tradition of rupture" properly displays a continuity between self and other, identity and difference, time and space.

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Paz, Octavio, -- 1914-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.

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