La ilusión referencial

• Published in: Co-herencia Vol. 14; no. 27; pp. 13 - 37
• Main Author: Riffaterre, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Medellín Universidad EAFIT 01-07-2017; UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT
• Subjects: Alegoría; Allegory; Art and literature; Arte y literatura; Avant-garde; Chateaubriand, Francois-Auguste-Rene de (1768-1848); Comparative literature; Crítica literaria; Dali, Salvador; Dialectics; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); English literature; Espiritualidad; Estructuralismo; French literature; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Generación del 27; Generation of 1927; Herbert, George (1593-1633); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Intertextualidad; Intertextuality; Linguistics; Lingüística; Literary criticism; Literary theory; Literatura comparada; Literatura española; Literatura francesa; Literatura inglesa; Literatura norteamericana; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; North American literature; Poesía; Poetics; Poetry; Poética; Semantics; Semiotics; Semiótica; Semántica; Spanish literature; Spirituality; Structuralism; Teoría literaria; Traducciones; Translations; Vanguardias; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
• ISSN: 1794-5887; 2539-1208
• DOI: 10.17230/co-herencia.14.27.1

Poetry enunciates ideas and things in an indirect manner; even the most natural description is not a simple statement of fact: this is presented as an aesthetic object with emotional connotations. The literary representation of reality, mimesis, is no more than the background that makes perceptible the indirect character of the meaning. Indirectness has been studied at length, but only as a phenomenon contained strictly in the text. The most fruitful approach to poetry - in fact, the only satisfactory one - is to take both the reader and the poem simultaneously into account: the interpreter at the same time as the interpreted. This is because the place of the phenomenon is not with the author, as critics have believed for a long time, nor within the isolated text, but rather it is in the dialectic between the text and the reader. Riffaterre's article, “The Referential Fallacy,” originally published in volume 57, issue 2 of the Columbia Review, 1978 (pp. 21-35), was translated into Spanish by Juanita Olivera Vélez.