Resumen

CORRAL RODRIGUEZ, Fortino. The city in the poetry of Efrain Huerta: a love of bitter root. Connotas. Rev. crit. teór. lit. [online]. 2021, n.23, pp.180-208.  Epub 16-Dic-2021. ISSN 2448-6019.  https://doi.org/10.36798/critlit.v0i23.386.

This article analyzes Efraín Huerta’s urban poetry with a semiotic approach. First, the literary context with which it dialogues is established and then the intrinsic analysis of the poetic corpus considered is carried out. The dialogic context is described taking into account that Efraín Huerta belongs to the generation of 1914, which is the one that immediately follows that of the Contemporáneos group; at this point it is noted that the distinctive feature of Huerta’s generation is their marked interest in social issues. The analysis of the texts aims to explain the way in which meaning is organized and produced. To this end, two organizational systems are distinguished: one, of a narrative type, based on the actancial model, and the other sensorial-affective, which focuses its attention on the passional becoming of the subject. The former is anchored in Greimas’ sixties semiotics, while the latter is based on the contributions of tensional semiotics, developed in the last three decades by Jacques Fontanille and Claude Zilberberg, among others. It also draws on other theoretical contributions such as the cultural semiotics of Iuri Lotman, Peirce’s triadic model and some fundamental concepts of Gilles Deleuze’s thought.

Palabras llave : urban poetry; civilian poetry; Efraín Huerta; lyrical subject; Tensive Semiotics.