Abstract
Clara Janés intertwines contemporary e-communication and Spanish medieval mysticism to envision the texture of social experience, selfhood, and creativity in the digital age. Vilanos (E-mails) invokes e-mailing's mystical dimensions: cyberspace’s effacement of time and space and the cybernetic undoing of the self. Interrogating encounters with electronic otherness in the cybernetic void, a digitized form of spiritual pilgrimage emerges, encompassing a search for self-knowledge and aesthetic intuition. Confronting the limitations of social connection through technological mediation, the digital’s invitation to self-encounter, nevertheless, can reveal the aleatory complexities of the self, cosmos, and poetry itself, characterized by indeterminacy and constant movement.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | Bulletin of Spanish Studies |
State | Accepted/In press - 2022 |
Keywords
- Poetry
- Clara Janés
- Vilanos (E-mails)
- digital age
- knowledge
- creative experience
- selfhood
- social experience
- electronic communication
- mysticism