Contemplación y écfrasis.Una repartición de los tiempos en El nervio óptico de María Gainza

This article aims to establish an analogy between operational time (ho nyn kairós) and the narrative element of the descriptive pause in María Gainza's Optic Nerve as an autofiction novel. Through close reading and a narratological analysis of this novel, it is demonstrated that the descriptive...

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Main Author: Jesús Santander
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lirico/17859
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description This article aims to establish an analogy between operational time (ho nyn kairós) and the narrative element of the descriptive pause in María Gainza's Optic Nerve as an autofiction novel. Through close reading and a narratological analysis of this novel, it is demonstrated that the descriptive pause, together with anachronies, makes a re-distribution of time and places operational time on an equal footing with chronological time, which reveals the political dimension of autodiegetic narratives and their resistance to the productivity of contemporary discourses.
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Contemplación y écfrasis.Una repartición de los tiempos en El nervio óptico de María Gainza
Cuadernos LIRICO
Descriptive pauses
operational time
“poetic of inoperativity”
partition of times
autodiegesis
title Contemplación y écfrasis.Una repartición de los tiempos en El nervio óptico de María Gainza
title_full Contemplación y écfrasis.Una repartición de los tiempos en El nervio óptico de María Gainza
title_fullStr Contemplación y écfrasis.Una repartición de los tiempos en El nervio óptico de María Gainza
title_full_unstemmed Contemplación y écfrasis.Una repartición de los tiempos en El nervio óptico de María Gainza
title_short Contemplación y écfrasis.Una repartición de los tiempos en El nervio óptico de María Gainza
title_sort contemplacion y ecfrasis una reparticion de los tiempos en el nervio optico de maria gainza
topic Descriptive pauses
operational time
“poetic of inoperativity”
partition of times
autodiegesis
url https://journals.openedition.org/lirico/17859
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