La poética del horizonte. Espacio, escritura y campo literario en las novelas de José Marí­a de Pereda

Abstract

This essay employs the term "poetics of the horizon" to designate the set of rules governing the literary practice of a modern phenomenon - the horizon- present in several disciplines in the humanities (e.g. phenomenology, hermeneutics, art theory, literary theory). With the twofold goal of establishing (i) a typology and (ii) some of the most significant family resemblances of the literary horizon, this article ex ªplores the function and meaning of the horizons in a specific case -the novels of José Marí­a de Pereda. The thorough analysis of such corpus leads to the conclusion that the literary horizon produces a discursive topography through the imposition of its boundaries, raises important epistemological, artistic and literary issues, and reflects the liminal positioning of the writer in the literary field.