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La experiencia de lo nuevo. Periodicos, moda y literatura en America Latina (1790-1860).

La experiencia de lo nuevo. Periodicos, moda y literatura en America Latina (1790-1860).

Victor Goldgel Carballo
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This dissertation reconstructs the cultural shift by which novelty became a dominant value in early nineteenth-century Latin America. Comparing colonial and postcolonial contexts that experienced particularly rapid processes of modernization during the period , I trace the concept of novelty from its initial, often deprecatory meaning of puzzlement or disruption to its modern use as an expression of praise. Periodicals and fashion, I argue, were at the basis of this cultural shift, and can therefore be framed as conditions for the emergence of modern Latin American literature.;In each of the three chapters I examine this process from a comparative and transatlantic perspective, through readings of literary periodicals published in Havana, Buenos Aires, Santiago, London, and Madrid between 1790 and 1860. Chapter 1 analyzes the ways in which the development of the periodical press contributed to the fetishism of the new that would increasingly characterize intellectual production during the nineteenth century. Focusing on the attempts to give "color" and "variety" to periodicals, I contend that this new technology not only fostered an aesthetic disposition for novelties, but also brought about a transformation of traditional literary norms, privileging a rapid prose and new modes of discursive authority.;Chapter 2 examines how fashion overflowed from the realm of consumerism, imposing its logic upon literature. As a process of periodical renewal, fashion functioned as a paradigm both for initial reflections on modernity and for the adoption of a literary standpoint based on breaking with the past. Due to its perceived threat to the local, however, fashion also generated multiple critical resistances, as I show through readings of Cirilo Villaverde, Domingo F. Sarmiento and Juana Paula Manso, among others.;Chapter 3 explores the intertwining of the Enlightenment and romanticism , focusing on the sudden interest in neologisms, originality, and youth that characterized the 1830s and 1840s. Writers such as Esteban Echeverria, Andres Bello and Ramon de Palma debated heatedly the value of the rupture afforded by romanticism. Novelty, however, was often experienced as monstrosity, suggesting nascent perceptions of the alienation implicit in modernity.
Pages
321
Format
NOOKstudy eTextbook
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Release
August 29, 2022
ISBN
1124032258
ISBN 13
9781124032252

La experiencia de lo nuevo. Periodicos, moda y literatura en America Latina (1790-1860).

Victor Goldgel Carballo
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This dissertation reconstructs the cultural shift by which novelty became a dominant value in early nineteenth-century Latin America. Comparing colonial and postcolonial contexts that experienced particularly rapid processes of modernization during the period , I trace the concept of novelty from its initial, often deprecatory meaning of puzzlement or disruption to its modern use as an expression of praise. Periodicals and fashion, I argue, were at the basis of this cultural shift, and can therefore be framed as conditions for the emergence of modern Latin American literature.;In each of the three chapters I examine this process from a comparative and transatlantic perspective, through readings of literary periodicals published in Havana, Buenos Aires, Santiago, London, and Madrid between 1790 and 1860. Chapter 1 analyzes the ways in which the development of the periodical press contributed to the fetishism of the new that would increasingly characterize intellectual production during the nineteenth century. Focusing on the attempts to give "color" and "variety" to periodicals, I contend that this new technology not only fostered an aesthetic disposition for novelties, but also brought about a transformation of traditional literary norms, privileging a rapid prose and new modes of discursive authority.;Chapter 2 examines how fashion overflowed from the realm of consumerism, imposing its logic upon literature. As a process of periodical renewal, fashion functioned as a paradigm both for initial reflections on modernity and for the adoption of a literary standpoint based on breaking with the past. Due to its perceived threat to the local, however, fashion also generated multiple critical resistances, as I show through readings of Cirilo Villaverde, Domingo F. Sarmiento and Juana Paula Manso, among others.;Chapter 3 explores the intertwining of the Enlightenment and romanticism , focusing on the sudden interest in neologisms, originality, and youth that characterized the 1830s and 1840s. Writers such as Esteban Echeverria, Andres Bello and Ramon de Palma debated heatedly the value of the rupture afforded by romanticism. Novelty, however, was often experienced as monstrosity, suggesting nascent perceptions of the alienation implicit in modernity.
Pages
321
Format
NOOKstudy eTextbook
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Release
August 29, 2022
ISBN
1124032258
ISBN 13
9781124032252

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