“LABIOS MÍOS TEMBLANDO, DEL PRECIOSO REGALO DE TU MANO, TIÑÉNDOSE”: LA HUELLA DE PABLO GARCÍA BAENA EN EL DEVOCIONARIO DE ANA ROSSETTI

Este ensayo pretende evidenciar el magisterio que Pablo García Baena (Córdoba, 1921 – Córdoba, 2018), miembro fundador del grupo Cántico de Córdoba, ejerció en la obra poética de la escritora Ana Rossetti (San Fernando, 1950), particularmente en su poemario Devocionario (1986). Con este fin se lleva a cabo un análisis minucioso de la obra lírica de ambos que demuestra el gran número de rasgos estéticos que comparten. Entre los que sobresalen el uso de un lenguaje estetizante, rico en matices y detalles preciosistas, la exaltación de los sentidos y, principalmente, el empleo del imaginario católico al que los dos recurren con un propósito, más que religioso, decorativo. En última instancia, este estudio comparativo trata de iluminar algunas de las claves de Devocionario que la crítica, debido a una falta de comprensión, ha tendido a malinterpretar. Concretamente, se ha sobredimensionado el componente erótico del libro de la gaditana. Abstract: This essay will address the influence of Pablo García Baena (Córdoba, 1921-2018), a founding member of the literary group Cántico (Córdoba), in the poetry of Ana Rossetti (San Fernando, 1950), particularly her book Devocionario (1986). To achieve this, attention is paid to the poetic work of both writers, showing common aspects in their aesthetics, such as the outstanding use of language —rich in nuances and details—, the exaltation of the senses, and, mostly, the use of Catholic imagery, to which both resort with a decorative rather than a religious purpose. This comparative study will also approach some of the keys of Devocionario, which has been misunderstood by the critics. Particularly, scholars have exaggerated the erotic component of this book.

Find Your Way Back: Black Colleagues Return to the Erotic

This paper provides an analysis of the effects anti-Black violence have had on the return of Black colleagues (administrators, faculty, and staff) to higher education after the the 2020 murder of African American citizen George Floyd at the hands of now former Minneapolis police officers. Riffing off of R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s song of return, “Find Your Way Back” and using it as a loose organizational rubric—each section is titled from the song’s lyrics—I ask what answers we might find between return and resignation. The analysis starts with the question of return: How in the hell do Black colleagues return to the university after a collective trauma? The essay centralizes the concerns of Black colleagues in higher education, positioning us between resignation and return. It seeks to consider (pending a return) to what are we returning. To explore this liminal dilemma—resignation or return—the essay will trace the lineage of racism located in higher education to slavery and the violent exclusion of African Americans from gaining access to knowledge. Briefly tracing American education’s lineage to White supremacy, I aim to frame our possible return against an institution that parodies its paternal line. The essay will show that the racism characteristic of American history morphed into an insidious, invisible source of oppression termed microaggressions. To address the consequences of racial microaggressions, I draw on psychotherapeutic clinical research on the effects of racial microaggressions on Black workers. Mirroring clinicians’ approach to addressing the race-based problems of higher education, I call on the Black feminist scholar Audre Lorde’s notion of “the erotic” as a spiritual power source. I look at how Lorde explored Black psychology and trauma within higher education in her poem “Blackstudies.” Mining this and her other triumphant essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” I look to establish “the erotic” as a comparable counterpunch to microaggressions in higher education.

The Erotic and the Eternal: Striving for the Permanence of Meaning

The paper presents three conceptions of ‘conatus’ that show the will to persist as being connected to the individual’s participating in a culture or other collective entity and which present human striving as transcending mere biological givenness. The human strife as a movement between the ‘erotic’ and, the ‘eternal’ is analyzed in three conative ‘myths’ – ‘eros’ in Plato’s Symposium, ‘cura’ in Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit, and ‘Geist’ in Scheler’s Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos.

Erotica in Photography Through the Ages

The purpose of the article is to analyze the components of erotic photography, establish the role of photography in defining a person’s worldview, prove the importance of erotic photography in the self-expression of new generations of photographers. The research methodology is based on an integrated scientific approach and theoretical analysis of the erotic genre masters’ works, information sources; generalization of the influence of erotic photography on the worldview in photography; defining the historical aspects that shape the worldview of eroticism. Scientific novelty. The components of erotic photography are analysed, a detailed analysis of the historical aspects in the formation of the worldview of erotic is made, by theoretical analysing the erotic photography masters’ works, the role of photography in the self-expression of new generations is determined. Conclusions. In the article, we analysed the components of erotic photography. Through the detailed analyses of erotic photographs, the role of photography in determining a person’s worldview has been established. The factors that influence the self-expression of new generations have been summarized.

Oscar Wilde’s Misattributions: A Legacy of Gross Indecency

Drawing on correspondence and periodical advertising as well as paratextual and bibliographic detail, this paper compares editions of the three most prominent texts falsely associated with Oscar Wilde: The Green Carnation (1894), an intimate satire on Wilde’s relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas actually written by Douglas’ friend Robert Smythe Hichens; “The Priest and the Acolyte” (1894), a paedophilic story written by John Francis Bloxam and presented as evidence against Wilde during his libel trial and then privately reprinted; and the erotic novel Teleny (1893), which is still attributed to Wilde today. His name appeared in tandem with these novels over the course of a century, linking him further with sex and scandal. Two separate editions of Teleny in 1984 and 1986 feature introductions by Winston Leyland and John McRae, respectively justifying Wilde’s authorship and describing the work as likely a round-robin pornographic collaboration between Wilde and his young friends. By recognising and exposing these cases of literary impersonation, we can amend Wilde’s legacy.

The Aesthetic Value of the World

In this book, Tom Cochrane defends Aestheticism—the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one. Furthermore, in distilling aesthetic qualities, artists have a special role to play in teaching us to recognize values; a critical component of virtue. Cochrane grounds his account upon an analysis of aesthetic value as ‘objectified final value’, which is underwritten by an original psychological claim that all aesthetic values are distal versions of practical values. This is followed by systematic accounts of beauty, sublimity, comedy, drama, and tragedy, as well as Appendix entries on the cute, the cool, the kitsch, the uncanny, the horrific, the erotic, and the furious.