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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Pages (from-to) | 1293-1319 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Bulletin of Spanish Studies |
Volume | 99 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Clara Janés
- Creative experience
- Digital age
- Electronic communication
- Knowledge
- Mysticism
- Poetry
- Selfhood
- Social experience
- Vilanos (E-mails)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Literature and Literary Theory