Published: 2021-01-27

The reflected body. The double bodies and the corporeal Doppelgänger in Spanish contemporary poetry

Vicente Luis Mora Logo ORCID
Section: Corporeality and its meaningfulness: the body and the identity
https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.15.04

Abstract

The portraying of the subjects in front of the looking glass is a literary topic in which the body is involved in a range of possibilities. From the corporeality of the “other” reflected by/in the narcissistic or self-critic perspective about the appearance of oneself, the mirror offers to Spanish contemporary poets a fruitful frame to explore all the variations of anagnorisis and dis-cognition. The text develops a theoretical and cultural episteme in order to read the work of a number of Spanish poets, in which the body analysed in the looking glass could adopt the form of grief, complaint, egotistical exposure, cultural references (e.g. Alice or Narcissus), or technological exam.

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Mora, V. L. (2021). The reflected body. The double bodies and the corporeal Doppelgänger in Spanish contemporary poetry. Romanica Silesiana, 15(1), 51–64. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.15.04

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019)
Published: 2021-05-28


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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