Silva y ciudad: Literatura, cultura y politica en Colombia, 1880--1896.
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Title
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Silva y ciudad: Literatura, cultura y politica en Colombia, 1880--1896.
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Identifier
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AAI3037430
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identifier
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3037430
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Creator
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Osorio, Jose Jesus.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Oscar Montero
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Date
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2002
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Latin American
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Abstract
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This dissertation focuses on the cultural and political conditions of Colombia in relationship with their most notorious poet in its history. The relationship between Jose Asuncion Silva, the cultural institutions and the social and political environment at the end of the XIX century in Bogota is the main interest of this thesis. The Colombian nation underwent great political and social changes at the end of the century. Jose Asuncion Silva lived in a narrow-minded society that achieved a short but very important period of peace. Critics from different perspectives, in many cases contradictious, bother Jose Asuncion Silva because of his novelty characteristics. Nonetheless, they do not take into consideration the sensible intellectual that cares about the social situation, the city and the country. Journal articles and chronics about the city written by Silva denote the conditions of the relationship established by the poet with the letrados of the Regeneration, groups of writers and the city as generator of culture.;This dissertation analyzes the poetic works of Silva, which deals with the topic of childhood, the poetry book Intimidades written by the poet during his adolescence and his first poem "La primera comunion" written when he was ten years old. The reconstruction of Silva's childhood by some of his friends is also analyzed. This late reconstructions of his infancy just serves to create an impression of a weird, uneasy being that does not fit according to Bogota's society of the epoch.;Literary anthologies such as Parnaso colombiano, La lira nueva , and Estudio preliminar written by Jose Maria Rivas Groot are analyzed. The ideas of Rivas Groot about the poetry and social function of the poet are compared with the ones exposed by Silva. The revolutionary ideas of Silva cause uneasiness and discrimination against him because they are far from the traditional norms imposed by the culture of the time. Silva does not accept that a poet has to be regulated by the catholic preceptors. This dissertation considers that the relationship of Silva with the letrados of the Regeneration group was uncomfortable.;Silva was interested in the societal chronic and he thought journalism was an idoneous medium to express his ideas about society and particularly literature and culture in general. Silva's vital attitude caused great attention to the people of traditional minds of the time. He creates turmoil for the way he carries himself, way of dressing, and gestures, which did not correspond with a man of the time. It is observed that Silva's isolation did not happen due to the idiosyncrasy of his great talent but because of local circumstances created by the critics who did not always carry them out with honesty and fairness.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
