A new line of study of Rosa Cruchaga de Walker's poetry is proposed, focusing on the contemplative and mystic component, in accordance with the literary legacy of Discalced Carmelite, from the theology of Saint Teresa of Jesus to the poetry of Saint John of the Cross. The question of this study emerges from the analysis of some poems selected from ...
Continuing with the conclusions already published, this paper reiterates the hypothesis that Saint John of the Cross is not the author of the Declarations of the Cántico espiritual as they have come down to us. To that end, we discuss certain problematic aspects of the Sanlúcar codex, the often contradictory depositions of the witnesses, and the st...
Walter Benjamin reflects in "The Task of the Translator" on language and translation. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the applicability of his theory in the analysis of the work Ascent of Mount Carmel of saint John of the Cross. We apply some concepts of his theory with the aim of delimiting and comparing to what extent they work, to...
The allegory of the ‘pájaro solitario’ or 'solitary bird' that appears in the Declaraciones of the Cántico espiritual and in other texts attributed to Saint John of the Cross has been the subject of numerous studies since the 1980s in order to elucidate its origin. Some researchers have related it to the phoenix, against the interpretations that at...
St. John of the Cross and Saint Teresa of Avila exercised their influence on the reflections of one of the protagonists of 20th century Spanish philosophy: María Zambrano. In 1939, taking the first steps towards her exile in Mexico, the philosopher writes on the great Castilian mystic inheriting the critique of a conception of man that can set asid...
Forming part of a more extended comparison between the work of Saint John of the Cross and Stéphane Mallarmé with regard to elements of Negative Theology, the present essay compares two poems directly: «Cántico espiritual» and «L’Après-midi d’un faune». / Como parte de un estudio comparado que pretende detectar elemen-tos de la teología negativa en...
This research work seeks to highlight the influence that the great Span-ish mystic St. John of the Cross has had on the work of Karol Wojtyła-John Paul II,how Wojtyla met the Spanish mystic through Tyranowski and the influx found in Wojtyla’s PhD work. St John’s of the Cross authority and influence forges Wo-jtyla’s "style of thinking", which matur...
The intertextuality resulting from a continuous dialogue between numerous authors and the work of Saint John of the Cross can be traced —directly or in a more subtle way— throughout the history of Spanish literature, from the Golden Age until the present day. The present article analyzes concepts and images of Saint John’s mysticism in the work of ...
The article examines the particular reception Valéry made from the poetry of Saint John of the Cross, the Valerian conception of the “mystic” and the expression «Mystic without God». The main thesis of the article argues that the love crisis that Valéry lived in the so-called “Night of Genoa” (1892) is decisive for understanding both his reading of...
The present article seeks to point out some remarkable parallels between the work of the Spanish mystic, Saint John of the Cross, and the German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. To that effect, it compares on a formal-stylistic level the «mayor poems» of Saint John of the Cross and the Stunden-Buch of Rainer Maria Rilke. The analysis shows a series of com...
