Seeable literature: The chilean lira popular as scopeLiteratura mirable: La lira popular chilena como escopo

Abstract

© 2020 Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educacion. All rights reserved.The following pages present a reading of the Chilean Lira Popular from its particular configuration as a scope, meaning, a singular graphic object that can be observed as constituting a visual experience. This is a literature that jumps into view, provoking and demanding a public gaze (reader and viewer) from a double visuality: it is a (typo)graphic image and an image incarnated in language. This article seeks to contribute a new angle to understanding the textual-visual mechanisms of the Lira, by examining not only its recognizable features, but rather, by revealing the plastic word and the visual invention as rhetorical essentials.