Ancestros y erotismo en Octavio Paz: Análisis retórico de dos poemas de Semillas para un himno

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.202001.001
Keywords: poetry, Mesoamerica, Nahuatl, Asian culture, metaphors

Abstract

Octavio Paz’s poetic work fuses the Mesoamerican tradition prior to the European Conquest, with the Asian culture –especially Indian, Chinese and Japanese. Therefore, it’s a valuable contribution to the convergence of those voices that, despite continental distances, reflect a certain similarity in the mythical and erotic constructions of poetic discourse. The Mexican author knew how to find a poetic universe that captures both cultures’ traditions, although without merging them, which constitutes an approach to two apparently dissimilar cultures in order to find the foundational sources of the Nahuatl and Chinese worlds. To analyze this proposal we focus, on one hand, on Arduini’s rhetorical and discoursive theory, regarding the rhetorical use of traditional literary figures, and, on the other hand, Lakoff and Johnson’s proposal for everyday metaphors.

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Author Biography

Johnny Zevallos, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas

Candidato a magíster en Literatura Peruana y Latinoamericana, y licenciado en Literatura por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Ha participado como ponente en diferentes congresos sobre estudios literarios y latinoamericanos realizados en Hispanoamérica y en los Estados Unidos. Asimismo, ha publicado artículos sobre crítica literaria y de arte en diversos medios impresos y electrónicos. Actualmente se dedica a la docencia en la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas y en la Universidad Tecnológica del Perú.

Published
2020-06-30
How to Cite
Zevallos, J. (2020). Ancestros y erotismo en Octavio Paz: Análisis retórico de dos poemas de Semillas para un himno. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 67(67), 11-49. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.202001.001
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No 67 (2020): Enero - Junio
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