Por salvar la poesía épicausos políticos de la teoría literaria en la Ilustración

  1. Claudia García-Minguillán 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Journal:
Tropelias: Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada

ISSN: 1132-2373

Year of publication: 2019

Issue Title: Proyecciones y usos de la teoría literaria

Issue: 5

Pages: 94-109

Type: Article

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Abstract

This article pretends to analyze how epic’s theory contributes to the formulation and legitimation of political roles of a society. From the Enlightenment’s beginnings, there was the fear that epic poetry’s disappearance was imminent. Faced with losing the ideological literature, there was both consequences: Toughen with literary rules or adapt the epic poetry to the social development. This variation of the classic paradigm favoured a passage from a warlike model to a pacific role, where the hero is not the soldier but the diplomatic, the politician, and even the philosopher. This trade, induced by the literary theory, lengthen epic genre’s life until the commence of XIX century.

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