VIDA Y CRITICA LITERARIA DE ENRIQUE PINEYRO.
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Title
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VIDA Y CRITICA LITERARIA DE ENRIQUE PINEYRO.
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Identifier
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AAI8023662
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identifier
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8023662
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Creator
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AGUIRRE, ANGELA M.
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Contributor
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Emilio Gonzalez-Lopez
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Date
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1980
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Language
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English
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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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The life and works of Enrique Pineyro, critic and historian of Spanish and Spanish-American literature are intricately intertwined by the two great ideas of fatherland and freedom. For Pineyro these two ideals are synthesized in the independence of Cuba; and to this ideal Pineyro dedicated most of his life. For this reason Pineyro focused his attention as literary critic and historian on that phase of Neoclassic and Romantic European, Spanish-American, and particularly Cuban literature in which the two ideals were blended and expressed.;Fatherland and freedom were the essence of the last generation of the Neoclassic period of Spain whose most prominent representative was the poet Manuel Jose Quintana. In Spanish America the same ideals appeared in the poetry of the Colombian Jose Joaqu(')in de Olmedo and in the Cuban Jose Mar(')ia Heredia, whose poetry represents the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.;Pineyro did not write about Neoclassicism prior to Quintana because he did not have an interest in analyzing or writing a literary history of a movement which was not based on those ideals of fatherland and freedom. Because of this, he believed his job as a critic had ended with the last Romantic movement.;In the first chapter devoted to Pineyro's biography, we study his political and literary efforts as a Cuban patriot in his own country and during his period of exile in the United States. After the study of Pineyro's life, we have divided his literary activities into three phases which indicate three different moments in his development as a literary critic. The first phase is "initiation", because it includes exercises in literary, political and historical criticism. The second phase, which is called "development", describes the beginning of his intellectual life in Paris during the 1880's, and the third phase is called "fulfillment". In this last section the most prominent essays on Spanish and Spanish-American Neoclassicism and Romanticism after 1892 are analyzed.;The study of these three phases of the works of Pineyro prove him to be an initiator of Spanish literary criticism of the XIXth century. He includes in his works an analysis of both the last Neoclassic generation called by some critics "La generacion madrilena", and the Romantic generation. We have studied Pineyro as a critic of the new literature of Latin American countries which had recently acquired their independence from Spain, and also as an analyst of Cuba, where the impact of Spanish domination was still very strong in the literary works produced.;We believe that with this research through the life and works of Enrique Pineyro, we offer new insights to the development of Spanish, Spanish-American and Cuban literary criticism during the XIXth century.
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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.
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Program
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Spanish
