TY - JOUR

T1 - Una tercera lectura

T2 - the cinematic reader and the cult of virility in Manuel Puig's 'El beso de la mujer araña; (1976)

AU - Thakkar, Amit

PY - 2014/1

Y1 - 2014/1

N2 - In El beso de la mujer araña, Manuel Puig encourages a “tercera lectura,” informed by both cinema and literature. He creates a cinematic language reinforced by the spirit of “synthesis” and then incorporates a conceptual discourse which is beyond cinema because of the “límites de atención” of a “lector cinematográfico.” Puig expects readers to draw their own conclusions about the themes which emerge. I argue here that both the themes and aesthetic of the novel can be read as a challenge to the form and content of a literary and filmic “cult of virility.

AB - In El beso de la mujer araña, Manuel Puig encourages a “tercera lectura,” informed by both cinema and literature. He creates a cinematic language reinforced by the spirit of “synthesis” and then incorporates a conceptual discourse which is beyond cinema because of the “límites de atención” of a “lector cinematográfico.” Puig expects readers to draw their own conclusions about the themes which emerge. I argue here that both the themes and aesthetic of the novel can be read as a challenge to the form and content of a literary and filmic “cult of virility.

KW - Puig

KW - fiction

KW - cinema

KW - reading practices

KW - virility

KW - masculinities

U2 - 10.1080/14701847.2014.965886

DO - 10.1080/14701847.2014.965886

M3 - Journal article

VL - 20

SP - 7

EP - 29

JO - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies

JF - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies

SN - 1470-1847

IS - 1

ER -