Víctor Pueyo Zoco
PhD, Stony Brook University
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Research Interests
- 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, stemming from one 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? 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.
My next project is a re-examination of Early Modern “love” discourses in the light of their ideological constitution: how the ontological shapes the imaginary in the Absolutist State, to what extent “human” relations can be reduced to relations of production, the role of the voyeur or “vanishing other”, how social actors interrelate in triangular, rather than bilateral, symbolic exchanges, etc.
General areas of interest include: the ideological relation between the Baroque and the Post-Modern; the American Baroque; the problem of nation formation and the transition to Modernity in Spain; contemporary Spanish horror narratives.
Most recent publications
Books:
Góngora: hacia una poética histórica. Barcelona, Ediciones de Intervención Cultural. (Forthcoming).
Articles:
“Góngora en América: problemas de/con la ideología del Barroco”, Calíope. Journal of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry. (Forthcoming).
“Viaje de ida y viaje de vuelta del modernismo latinoamericano: el caso de Delmira Agustini”, Journal of Hispanic Modernism, 1 (2010): 132-50.
“Desnúdese el desnudo. Para seguir leyendo los Poemas humanos de César Vallejo”, Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana, 1 (2010): 1-16.
Bruce R. Burningham: “Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture”, Anales cervantinos, Vol. XLII (2010): 450-461.
“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): 63-79.
“Qué es el humor negro. Teoría y práctica en el cine español de posguerra”, Hiperfeira. Arts & Literature International Journal 9 (2007).
“Introducción: El humor y los estudios literarios”. Eclipse. Revista literaria universitaria 6 (2006): 9-24.
“El Quijote de Thomas Mann en el vértice de la Modernidad”. Riff-Raff. Revista de pensamiento y cultura, 31 (2ª época), primavera (2006): 57-61.
“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): 148-159.
“La comedia ática y los estudios literarios”. Riff Raff. Revista de pensamiento y cultura 29 (2ª época), otoño (2005): 41-44.
“Burla, escarnio y otras diversiones. Historia del humor en la Edad Media de Xavier Theros”. Riff Raff. Revista de pensamiento y cultura 28 (2ª época), primavera (2005): 43-46.
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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