El sujeto (a)lirico en la poesia espanola contemporanea y su trasfondo barroco

Abstract

The reasons for the diffusion of the lyric subject in much of contemporary Spanish poetry go beyond the poets' mere intention of avoiding pathetic sentimentalism. The phenomenon also responds to their awareness of the fragile and complex nature of identity, which is perceived as the result of a process involving several forces. Thus, the "I" in the poem occupies a problematic locus of enunciation characterized by its indeterminacy. This estrangement of the lyric qualities of the poem can be traced back to a tradition that, contesting the predominant modern conception of the subject (that of Petrarch and Descartes), has an essential point of departure in the ontological precariousness characteristic of baroque aesthetics.