When the Critic Sings

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/eltaco.11.22.e0194

Keywords:

Martín Fierro, sestet, orality and writing, graphocentrism and phonocentrism, poetics of criticism

Abstract

Poitiers, winter 2000. A conversation among scholars about the characteristic stanza of Martín Fierro suddenly turns into a performance. A leading critic of José Hernández's work begins to sing the first verses of the poem following the melodic and rhythmic conventions of canto por cifra. The scene conjures vital theoretical and poetic issues: the relationships between orality and writing, authorship and performance, composition and improvisation, phonocentrism and graphocentrism. All these questions hint at another one that belongs to what we might call the poetics of criticism: can the critic sing? 

 

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2025-12-12

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Papeles de investigación