Abstract

ARANCET RUDA, María Amelia. Soldiery in the Poetry of Viel Temperley: Love, Ideals and Feasible Masculinity. Lexis [online]. 2023, vol.47, n.2, pp.874-908.  Epub Dec 18, 2023. ISSN 0254-9239.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18800/lexis.202302.012.

According to critics, Viel Temperley is an Argentine mystical poet, but here we address a different facet, operative in relation to subjective representation and the encoding of a worldview: the iteration of military figurations, especially those of the soldier and its variants, in texts, paratexts and epitexts -the latter, crucial in this work to validate the explored inclination, also supported by extraliterary documents-. There is a multivocal repertoire of soldiery themes, deeply rooted in Argentine history and, furthermore, associated with the masculine imaginary of a particular era. This repertoire constructs the masculine self, but according to a subverted and destabilizing version, which ranges from love to heroism, even to the freedom of poetry. Due to this anti-system dissent, the figure of Juan Lavalle, dear to our author, is a kind of double in several compositions, and it sheds light on some of the meanings that soldiery acquires in Viel’s work.

Keywords : soldiery; war history; masculinity; love.

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