Intertextuality forms in contermporary Spanish poetry. Aphorisms, ekphrasis and virtual poetry

Abstract

This article focuses on the study of intertextuality in the Spanish poetry of the last few decades. Building on a review of the concept of intertextuality, it analyzes some interrelationships with other texts and works in three contemporary literary forms: aphorisms, ekphrasis, and visual poetry. In all of them, intertextuality serves as a compositional mechanism allowing for the creation of new works, which enter into a dialogue with tradition and then challenge and rewrite it through procedures such as revision, inversion and continuation. Intertextuality and other related modalities, including appropriation and intervention, thus emerge as the basic creative approaches that could come to be seen as a general trend in current literary creation.