Ricardo Rojas: An Argentine Modernity
In this essay, we analyze a key literary historiographic work, "La literature argentina", by Ricardo Rojas, from the perspective of intellectual history. In it, we seek to determine the ideological coordinates in which Rojas inscribes his effort to study a national literary system while vi...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuarioceh/article/view/23224 |
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| Sumario: | In this essay, we analyze a key literary historiographic work, "La literature argentina", by Ricardo Rojas, from the perspective of intellectual history. In it, we seek to determine the ideological coordinates in which Rojas inscribes his effort to study a national literary system while virtually creating it. Based on the general directions of his thought (nationalism, evolutionism, positivism, romantic historicism, liberalism), we focus particularly on his idea of modernity as the object of our study. This idea of modernity refers to a particular period of Argentine history as well as to the autonomization of different discursive spheres, among which literature is only one of them. In this sense of autonomization, modernity has been a part of Argentine culture since its very beginningg. On the other hand, Argentine culture is understood by Rojas as an amalgamation of different contributions -American indian, original settlers (criollos), immigrants-, whose providential nature is yet to be determined. Modernity thus, is but a prior state in the evolution towards it. |
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