Víctor Pueyo Zoco
Research:
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Peninsular and Spanish American ideological production.
- Poetry in Spain and in the New Spain. Marxist theory, Bakhtin and Aesthetics.
I am currently completing a book on the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora. This project is a theoretical reappraisal of Góngora’s popular verse that entails a profound questioning of the Spanish Baroque as an epistemological framework. This re-examination stems from a basic paradox: how can the Baroque, product by definition of the official, organic ideology, be understood from the standpoint of the vast popular culture that it ultimately seems to create? This question becomes more relevant – and even more acutely intriguing – if we consider that most of the canonic and non-canonic greatest works of the period (from the Quixote to Góngora’s Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe, going through the Picaresque novel) pertain to the field of popular culture. My work aims at proving that this prominent streak of literary grotesque is not only relevant but indeed native to the cultural logic of the Baroque, which can be redefined in terms of a more fluid relation between the official and the popular, in order to finally debunk the fallacy of the two Góngoras.
Other areas of interest include: the construction of the “transatlantic”, which I pose as a historical rather than a geographical issue; the problem of nation formation and the transition to Modernity; the tensions between high and low cultures, major and minor languages; and, of especial importance, the ongoing theorization of Peninsular and Latin American literary history, which is a radical concern in my research agenda.
Most recent publications:
Books:
Góngora: hacia una poética histórica (accepted for publication), Barcelona, Ediciones de Intervención Cultural. Expected publication date: Spring 2010.
Articles:
“El debate entre el esteticismo y la intención social de Quevedo. Panorama, radiografía crítica y soluciones”. La Perinola. Revista de Investigación Quevediana, 14 (2009).
“La producción de la poética indie”, Riff-Raff. Revista de pensamiento y cultura, 37 (3ª época), otoño (2009).
“Bajtín contra Foucault. Arqueología de un debate silenciado en Mito y Archivo, de Roberto González Echevarría”, Riff-Raff. Revista de pensamiento y cultura, 37 (3ª época), primavera-verano (2008).
“Qué es el humor negro. Teoría y práctica en el cine español de posguerra”, Hiperfeira. Arts & Literature International Journal 9 (2007).
“Las cosas nunca vistas ni oídas: El Quijote como texto opaco”, in Arboleda, Carlos (Coord.). The Impact of Don Quijote (1605-2005) on the Culture of the Modern and the Postmodern World. New Haven: Southern Connecticut State University (2006).
Teaching philosophy.
I have taught courses on Medieval, Golden Age and Colonial Spanish literature. When it comes to teaching, I make no distinction between theory and practice. Teaching (or, as Althusser would put it, theoretical practice) is an integral task of theory. I try to undertake this task dialectically: besides guiding the students through a series of immersions in the foreign past “culture”, I tend to turn the tables and lead them into questioning their own present from the privileged perspective of the past. As a result of that, no single culture becomes more outstanding or pertinent than another or than history itself.
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