The sublime in the homopoetic of Vicente Aleixandre

This article aims to develop a “des-concealment” work of the “homopoetics” of Vicente Aleixandre. For this, symbols, visions and visionary images are analyzed as expressions of a homoeroticism, where sublime experiences predominate and define to the lyrical homosexual lovers and the cosmic, contextu...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Campos López, Ronald
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2017
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UCR
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/30428
Online Access:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/30428
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Spanish poetry
Vicente Aleixandre
“homopoetic”
the sublime
“homotexting”
poesía española
homopoética
lo sublime
homotextualización
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Summary:This article aims to develop a “des-concealment” work of the “homopoetics” of Vicente Aleixandre. For this, symbols, visions and visionary images are analyzed as expressions of a homoeroticism, where sublime experiences predominate and define to the lyrical homosexual lovers and the cosmic, contextual and intimate environment. The poems “Se querían”, “Mano entregada” and “No busques, no” are interpreted into a hermeneutical reading. This concludes that the sublime significantly participates in the consolidation of Aleixandre’s “homopoetics” in two ways. Firstly, the sublime is manifested as an attempt to convert daily homoerotic elements and experiences into something that elevates and transforms the lyrical subject through imagination. Secondly, the sublime defines, as “homotexting” resources, the play with light and shadow, the ambiguity, the hermetic, the splitting, the macro-cosmic and micro-cosmic limits, the blood symbolisms, the surrealist visionary images, the phenomenological and imaginative visions, an ecological awareness, the synesthesia generating, the homoerotic identity and confessions fragmentation, the antiphrasis and the litotes.