Ekphrasis and seduction: images in Luis Alberto de Cuenca´s poetry

Abstract

The following paper analyzes the link between image and poetic writing in the Spanish writer Luis Alberto de Cuenca's work (1950). The construction of a referential universe closely linked to the culture of the image (painting, cinema, cartoons, etc.) will be approached, firstly, from the old genre of ekphrasis that connects his poetry to a rhetorical tradition. Moreover, taking into account recent theoretical works on this notion ((Spitzer 1968, Heffernan 1991a y 1991b, Claus Clüver 1997, Webb 2009, Mitchell 2009 y 2016, etc.), we will explore the semiotic implications of this encounter between image and poetry in Luis Alberto de Cuenca's poetic corpus. Finally, our work will suggest a process of seduction (Baudrillard 1981) as an interpretive possibility of this area of Luis Alberto de Cuenca's production.