%0 Journal Article
%T El cuerpo como paradigma te¨®rico en literatura
%A Vivero Mar¨ªn
%A C¨¢ndida Elizabeth
%J La ventana. Revista de estudios de g¨¦nero
%D 2008
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X feminist literary theory and criticism have taken the human body as a relevant guideline to explain literary texts written by women. however, they have neglected an equally important aspect: the poetic function of language. this article is an attempt to bring back to the theoretical discussion the need to strike a balance between the communicative and the poetic functions of language, both of which are inherent to the literary text.
%K literature
%K body
%K poetic function
%K theory
%K criticism.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-94362008000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en