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BARRIOS CASTRO, María José. The Aesthetics of Myth in Argentine Literature of the 19th Century: Vicente López y Planes and Olegario V. Andrade. Nova tellus [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.2, pp.153-176.  Epub 29-Ago-2022. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2022.40.2.0021x57.

The aim of this paper is to study the use of Greco-Roman myths in 19th Century Argentina by focusing on two outstanding authors for their way of approaching them from different perspectives and aesthetics. The former, Vicente López y Planes, in his work El triunfo argentino appeals to myth by following the classicist aesthetic characterized by the use of mythology as a convention. The latter, Olegario V. Andrade, immersed in Romanticism in his work Prometeo chooses this mythological character for being a transgressive hero. Besides, we must take into account the particular Spanish-American reality in which people fight for Independence from Spain, since they take France as a model, without realizing that while accepting its influence, they receive at the same time a new colonizing power.

Palabras llave : mith; romantic aesthetics; neoclassical aesthetics; Vicente López y Planes; Olegario V. Andrade.

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