No-literatura: aproximación a la ontología débil de la literatura después del fragmentarismo

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The early 21st century has witnessed the spread of a number of literary conceptualist practices that originated in the first avant-garde movement. The fragmentarism typical of the turn of the century has led to a conception of verbal art that sabotages modern poetic foundations. Hence, conventional non-literary texts are presented as literary works following the usual techniques of artistic appropriation. This emerging phenomenon in the literary praxis of the 21st century goes beyond the solid principles of literary theory (fiction, literariness, style, genre) and is based on a different and alternative ontology that moves away from a belletristic conception of literature. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to approach the hallmarks of a literary weak ontology after fragmentarism. On the basis of the Aristotelian essence/accident dichotomy, emblematic works of literary conceptualism in the Hispanic area (Peicovich, Katchadjian, Fernández Mallo, Cussen, Zambra, Mora) will be approached to illustrate the concept of non-literature introduced in order to designate and group together that literature which, without being completely literary, is still verbal art.

Keywords

Literary Conceptualism, Appropriation, Ready-made Literature, Art Hoax, Literature in the Expanded Field