La brevedad inconmensurableel aforismo hispánico en la época de la retuiteabilidad

Abstract

The doctoral dissertation “La brevedad inconmensurable: el aforismo hispánico en la época de la retuiteabilidad” focuses on the study of the aphorism and the short forms in the contemporary Hispanic literature, as well as it pretends to be an original and innovative contribution to the emerging field of the digital humanities and to the studies on cyberculture and twitterature. This work mainly analyses the contemporary aphoristic writing and the short fiction, covering a wide spectrum of authors and nano-literary practices that have arisen in Mexico and Spain in the last decades. Nevertheless, a continuous dialogue is established between this contemporary corpus (Eusebio Ruvalcaba, Armando González Torres, Cristina Rivera Garza, Miguel Ángel Arcas, Lorenzo Oliván, Manuel Neila, Benjamín Barajas, Ramón Eder, Andrés Neuman, Rafael Argullol) and the modern tradition of the Hispanic aphorism (Antonio Machado, José Bergamín, Antonio Porchia or Ramón Gómez de la Serna). Furthermore, this approach is combined with a sustained theoretical reflection on the techno mediatic dimension of the network society, the cyberculture and the digital writing. Because of that, this proposal is nourished by the knowledge of online communication systems and the different ways in which the means of transmission have influenced literature. The second part of the dissertation focuses on the study of short literary forms in the age of Web 2.0, specially, the so-called “twitterature”: literary practices that explore the creative use of the social network Twitter. Introduced by a theoretical intermezzo about the concept of short fiction, this part proposes to study the “twitterary” practices of a remarkable generation of Mexican authors, who combine analogical publishing and digital production (José Luis Zárate, Alberto Chimal, Mauricio Montiel, Merlina Acevedo, Aurelio Asiain, among others), tracing its continuities with a series of Latin American precursors of the art of brevity.