A poetics of reading in the Góngora’s "Soledades"

Abstract

This study raises the possibility of a new meaning of the title Soledades in  Góngora’s poem, referring to “loneliness” as a requirement of any reading. It can be seen that one of the objectives of the Cordovan bard is to teach us to read his work and the world that surrounds it. To do this, Don Luis intratextually models the profile of the receiver of his work, who must act as the pilgrim of the poem, that is, he must use the hermeneutical
capacity of his gaze, in which the senses and the intellect merge, to reach the sense of the work. Hence, after long years of structuralist immanentism, a reading of Góngora’s Soledades is proposed from the modern philosophical, literary and psychological theories that have dealt with the analysis of literary works from the perspective of reception, which they highlight the im-portance of text-reader interaction and the integration of subject and textual object. We are referring to the phenomenology of Husserl and his
disciple Ingarden, which is related to Hegel’s philosophy and Gadamer’s hermeneutics, and to the presuppositions of the reception aesthetics of the German school of Constance, headed by Jauss and Iser, who It is also based on Ingarden’s phenomenology, on Gombrich’s psychology of perception and on Arnheim’s visual thought, which links with Gestalt, which is of special relevance for our study due to the prominence that Góngora grants to images.