Erotismo, subjetividad e imagen de la mujer en Los cálices vacíos

Abstract

This monograph analyzes Los cálices vacíos (1913) by Delmira Agustini through the categories of eroticism, female subjectivity, and the image of women. The study is situated within the context of Hispanic American modernismo and seeks to understand the relationships between the expression of desire, the configuration of a female poetic voice, and the representations of women in the collection. The research adopts a qualitative approach, a hermeneutic paradigm, and content analysis as a procedure for organizing and interpreting the corpus. The analysis focuses on images, metaphors, symbols, literary devices, and forms of enunciation found in the selected poems. The results show that eroticism in the work is not limited to the representation of bodily desire, but is also connected with affective and symbolic dimensions and with a poetic voice that expresses experience from an active position. The analysis also identifies different representations of women, including those in which the female figure appears as an object and those in which she occupies the position of a subject capable of expressing, interpreting, and resignifying her experience. Taken together, the three categories make it possible to understand the complexity of Agustini's poetic proposal within Hispanic American modernismo.