“Por un clavo se pierde un reino”: Alfonso Reyes, the Generation of 1927, and the Imperial Appropriation of Góngora

Hermida-Ruiz, Aurora

doi:10.5325/caliope.18.2.0161

Calíope

2013

DOI: 10.5325/caliope.18.2.0161

|View full text |Cite

“Por un clavo se pierde un reino”: Alfonso Reyes, the Generation of 1927, and the Imperial Appropriation of Góngora

Aurora Hermida-Ruiz¹

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2020

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

On Borges’s B/baroque

Johnson

2020

Comparative Literature

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article examines Jorge Luis Borges’s ingenious, largely dehistoricized interpretations and imitations of seventeenth-century writers typically called Baroque. It contends that the aesthetic, epistemological, and metaphysical values Borges assigns to works by Cervantes, Góngora, Quevedo, Gracián, Marino, Browne, Pascal, Leibniz, Angelus Silesius, and Spinoza depend largely on his conservative notions of how style and, specifically, metaphor should work. While writers from the historical Baroque often require readers to embrace hermeneutic difficulty, Borges, despite the ingenious difficulty of his own writings, refuses to countenance this stance. This refusal turns also on Borges’s distinction between writing he fervently praises as “classic” and writing he ambiguously blames as “baroque.” The former serves as the explicit model for his own invention; but the latter implicitly, agonistically, informs much of his thinking and writing as well. Borges’s unwillingness to distinguish the historical Baroque from a recurring, eternal baroque is understandable, given his philosophy of art and history; however, it ignores how periodization can have the heuristic and conceptual function of finding unity in multiplicity, a unity that includes divergent styles and ideologies.

show abstract

On Borges’s B/baroque

Johnson

2020

Comparative Literature

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

customersupport@researchsolutions.com

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

“Por un clavo se pierde un reino”: Alfonso Reyes, the Generation of 1927, and the Imperial Appropriation of Góngora

Cited by 1 publication

References 14 publications

On Borges’s B/baroque

On Borges’s B/baroque

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About