SYMBOLIC POWER AND TITANISM: REREADING PABLO NERUDA’S CANTO GENERAL
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Pablo Neruda, literary History, Hispanic Post avant-garde, Symbolic Power, TitanismAbstract
This article explores the presence of elements both “revolutionary” and “archaic” in Pablo Neruda’s
Canto general and the ambiguous relation of this major work of 20th-century Latin American poetry to
recent literary history. The discussion draws on Raymond Williams’s views of cultural history, Pierre
Bourdieu’s theories of how symbolic power is produced and distributed in the fi eld of cultural production,
and the notion of “spiritual titanism” as developed by philosophers (Nicholas Gier) and psychologists
(Eugene Monick).
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