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Book-Review: La cirugía del escombro» | Dimas Prychyslyy, Málaga, El Toro Celeste, 2021, 96 pp.

This study is based on the definition of generation provided by José Ortega y Gasset and its critical development to delimit a historical time —birth, events, sensitivities, training, hobbies— and a literary space —generational contacts, teachers, publications, language— in which to encompass a relevant and valuable part of recent Spanish poetry, which has been called the Reset Generation. Thus, a detailed thematological analysis of his lyrical production is offered, which is structured into a total of five blocks: 1) everyday life, the city and the evils of the beginning of the century, where elements such as music, new technologies, social networks, the city and its spaces, advertising, pop culture, the uncertain future, isolation or imposture are examined; 2) family, home and poetic space, where the figures of fathers and mothers and the figures of grandfathers and grandmothers —some with their own names—, the search for home and the configuration of a poetic space are analyzed; 3) pain, illness and individual or collective death, where diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease or senile dementia are considered and individual death is realized through suicide and collective death through contemporary tragedies and of the fantasies of the apocalypse; 4) development of queer poetics, where there is a trend marked by repressed homosexuality and another trend marked by normalized homosexuality; and 5) the gaze of women in poetic discourse, where suggestive motifs such as feminism, female sexuality focused on desire, possession, masturbation and sexual tastes or motherhood arise, narrated, claimed or rejected. Finally, the conclusions present a thematic list and a list regarding the attitudes —accumulative or combative— and the aspects —succession and secession versus overlap and opposition— located between all components of the Reset Generation.

Book-Review: El universo de una polémica. Góngora y la cultura española del siglo XVII | Mercedes Blanco y Aude Plagnard (eds.), Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2021, 757 pp.

We study in this work a case within the complex Herrerian textual problem, that of the elegy to the death of don Pedro de Zúñiga, surely deceased h. 1570-1571. We have received two complete testimonies of the poem, one in a manuscript from 1578 and the other printed in the posthumous edition of the Versos de Herrera by Francisco Pacheco (1619), in addition to the partial testimony (three verses), but very useful, which is collected in the Anotaciones a Garcilaso (1580). The analysis of the variants shows that version P is the result of an intense and coherent rewriting of the poem, marked by cultist intensification. This leads us to conclude that its author is Herrera himself, at some point between 1582 (Algunas obras) and 1597 (date of his death). It is plausible that P represents the final redaction of the text, but it cannot be proved.

Book-Review: Giro cultural de la memoria. La Guerra Civil a través de sus patrones narrativos | Patricia Cifre-Wibrow, Berlín, Peter Lang, 2022, 314 pp.

Book Review: Arde Madrid. Narrativa y Guerra Civil | Javier Sánchez Zapatero, Sevilla, Espuela de Plata, Col. "España en Armas", 2020, 519, pp.

The article focuses on the study of the manuscript tradition of the Camino de perfección by Teresa de Jesús. That is to say: the pair of autographs containing the two redactions of the text: El Escorial, kept in the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de El Escorial, and Valladolid, preserved at the Discalced Carmelites; and the three copies revised and authorized by the Saint, today at the Discalced Carmelites of Madrid, Salamanca and Toledo. Through the presentation of some significative examples of the authorial variants, the objective is an initial approach to the recuperation of the work’s original message and of the different drafting phases as documented by the manuscript transmission.

This paper explores the poetic quotations inside the so-called “decires con citas”, one of the genres cultivated by the “songbook poets”. In addition to their literary importance, the quotations constitute the indirect tradition of such compositions, a very useful contribution to determinate their textual history. The direct and indirect tradition of quotations from [ID0127] Querella de amor by the Marqués de Santillana, one of the most famous “decires con citas”, is analysed here.

This paper analyzes the literary treatment that Emilia Pardo Bazán offers in her short narrative of the figure of servants; figure framed in a relationship of servitude that will enter, at the end of the nineteenth century, in deep decline, hit by the new winds of freedom spread by the liberal movements. This will reveal a series of conflicts within the bourgeois domestic environment that threaten the maintenance of traditional social order, and to which the Galician writer will react by participating in an elitist discourse supported by the approaches of social Darwinism and positivist sociologies in vogue.

This work studies some difficult textual variants in the handwritten and printed textual transmisión of Quevedo’s El alguacil endemoniado. Many of these variants show the problema of distinguishing if they have been introduced by Quevedo or by copyists or printers. This fact has a great influence on the evaluation of each testimony and its lectures.