The journey of literary theory, according to Pozuelo Yvancos

The UMU professor gave the inaugural presentation of the IV International Congress of the Spanish Association of Literary Theory (Asetel)

José María Pozuelo Yvancos has been teaching for 49 years and continues to put a studied intensity in his words. He did so during the inaugural presentation of the IV International Congress of the Spanish Association of Literary Theory (Asetel), which will be held in Murcia until January 20, and which paid tribute on the first day to the UMU professor and Academic Correspondent of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) in which Antonio Sánchez Trigueros, María Ángeles Hermosilla Álvarez, Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Rosa María Aradra Sánchez participated. An act presented by Francisco Vicente.

Before that, the large meeting room of the UMU Faculty of Arts was packed to listen to Pozuelo Yvancos’ lecture ‘Where to continue? The Incessant Journey of Literary Theory’, presented by Anzo Abuín, doctor of the theory of literature and professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and which the professor, who was about to retire, wanted to dedicate “to my dear disciples because “university is a relay race and I’ve been lucky enough to have disciples who will give meaning to what I’ve done.”

The expert analyzed some of the horizons opened 50 years ago by the theory that “not only is still alive, but also makes us think that the link between theory and literature is necessary” because “theory is not a place, it is a journey that takes it hand in hand with literature and art» and focused his presentation on the French theorist Ronald Barthes, also recalling other analysts such as Umberto Eco and Susan Sontang.

In reflection, Yvancos emphasized that “the future devotion of literary theory must be a critical devotion to each of the cultural imaginaries that represent foundations for the very essence of culture” and wished that “theory, culture and literature be able to flee from the reductionisms to which the different interpretations of the texts want to reduce it, including the new episodes of exclusive moralism that have instilled the notions of the politically correct in the so-called cultural studies that are today dangerously sliding down a slope of identity ». that “the ideological support that literature can provide to the humanities is to teach that what is perpetual in the great texts is due to them saying different things to different men and women.”

Finally, the Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Murcia since 1983, elected “Murciano of the Year 2021″ by LA VERDAD, emphasized that «the literary space in today’s world incorporates a contrapuntal value that is often atonal and belongs into a complex and uneven topography that can withstand any standardization. The literary theory of the future must resist the increasing impoverishment of the notion of literature that is equated with local topographies as with vague universal ideas. Both are often regarded as areas of exclusion” and encouraged to admit “that theory, following the pace of literature itself, can function as a space of hermeneutical complexity where differences are not only recognized and understood, but also exchanged and discussed in the unceasing journey of writing”.

The sessions will continue with the participation of national and international literary experts, including Nuccio Ordine, Tomás Albaladejo, Agustín Fernández Mallo, David Roas and Mieke Bal.

Source: La Verdad

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