This article explores how certain functions of the video game glitch were adapted into the experimental poem “Ode to TL61P 1” by Keston Sutherland through its use of parataxis. I argue that both the mechanics of the deliberate glitch and the parataxis literary technique enforce the player’s and reader’s lack of autonomy in a digitalized environment. However, I propose that these qualities open a threshold where traditional rules are suspended, which generates a liminal state that reveals the ...

The filmography of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman is characterized by a search based on everyday life and autobiography, and sustained by a strong autobiographical impulse. This article analyzes the figure of the mother as a continuous presence throughout her cinematographic and literary work. Based on this interest, three main works are analyzed: News from Home (1977), My Mother Laughs (2013), and No Home Movie (2015). In different media and separated by decades, each of the works shows a...

This article reflects on the act of reappropriation of Soledades by Luis de Góngora as a “classic”. It is my aim to observe how the authorial ethos, a concept drawn from Dominique Maingueneau, is recreated through various forms of transcription and reinterpretation, in artistic proposals that take different aspects of his work, be it thematic, formal (stylistic), or related to the figure of its creator. Therefore, I address pieces of electronic literature and sound art that have been created ...

This article considers several versions, in English and Spanish (some of them illustrated), of what we know as The Rubáiyát of Omar Kayyám. Its main purpose is to show how surprising it is to have so many contradictory versions and translations of a book that we really barely know. We know little about Kayyám’s life: that he studied astronomy, physics, mathematics, and was a political advisor. He was also the author of several rubaiyat: the published versions consider them to range from 13 to...