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Abstract

Since the mid twentieth century, literary research has been guided by criteria related to the materiality, production and circulation of texts, taking into account the genres to which they are affiliated, the circumstances of writing, the styles of elocution and the audience (more or less heterogeneous), consisting of discrete or vulgar readers; courtiers or bourgeois, etc. From this perspective, somewhat frozen categories such as "author", "work" and "audience", as well as the notions of history and literature, are dated, multifaceted constructs. To be able to handle them, it is necessary to denaturalize the Hegelian system, which employs terms like "evolution" and "progress" to divide and arrange artistic movements into homogeneous successions, which would be born from ruptures and, supposedly, would not dialogue among themselves.

The texts collected here bring together a fundamental requirement, which consists in stimulating the dialogue between literature, history and other arts. Given their interdisciplinary character, the reader will notice that the articles discuss artistic codes; discuss concepts; rescue rhetorical and poetic expedients; problematize literary and iconographic genres, etc., without neglecting the political, theological, stylistic and institutional subtleties underlying the critical reception of what was produced in other times and places.