The Powerless Word: How are named names?

Authors

  • Alejandra Hurtado Tarazona Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia)
  • Julián Andrés Pacheco Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i18.142

Abstract

This article is based on the essay “On Language as Such and the Language of Man “ (1916) of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, and the conception of language explained there. Benjamin teaches that “pure language” is the divine language, in which the name is equivalent to the creation of the thing that is named; after the fall of this kind of language, it appears men language, which is only denomination, mimesis and no longer has magical powers of being creative. Based on this postulate, the poetics of Argentinian writer Alejandra Pizarnik is analyzed, by the relations of the notion of a pure language or zero language in contact with a religious dimenssion, and the failure of the word in modernity, as a lost paradise.

Author Biographies

Alejandra Hurtado Tarazona, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia)

Magister en Literatura de la Universidad de los Andes. Docente Investigadora de la Unidad de Investigación, editora de la revista indexada Hallazgos, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia). 

Publicaciones:

 “La obra (in)completa de Alejandra Pizarnik: un acercamiento a su obra inédita a partir de Otoño o los de arriba”. Revista Lexis, No. 1 Vol. 39 (julio- diciembre 2015). Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú.  

 “Consecuencias de la importación de modelos de indexación para medir la producción académica nacional”. Revista Educación y Desarrollo Social, enero-junio 2014. Universidad Militar de Colombia.

 “Indicadores de ISI y Scopus: el caso de la Universidad Santo Tomás”. Revista Hallazgos No. 19, enero-julio de 2013. Universidad Santo Tomás.

Julián Andrés Pacheco, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia)

Magister en Literatura del Instituto Caro y Cuervo. Docente Investigador de la Unidad de Investigación, Universidad Santo Tomás (Colombia). 

Publicaciones:

 “Consecuencias de la importación de modelos de indexación para medir la producción académica nacional”. Revista Educación y Desarrollo Social, enero-junio 2014. Universidad Militar de Colombia.

 “Indicadores de ISI y Scopus: el caso de la Universidad Santo Tomás”. Revista Hallazgos No. 19, enero-julio de 2013. Universidad Santo Tomás.

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Published

2016-07-19

How to Cite

Hurtado Tarazona, A., & Pacheco, J. A. (2016). The Powerless Word: How are named names?. Valenciana, (18), pp. 165–186. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i18.142

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No. 18 (2016): Núm. 18 julio-diciembre 2016

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