A critique on language in Hispano-American Poetry. A study on Modernism

Abstract

The question that this article intends to answer aims towards thinking how the consciousness of critic in Hispano-American Modernism is assumed, since it is a literary and philosophic problem regarding the language arisen from the consideration that confidence in words was one of the main postulates that took part in overcoming the Nineteenth century crisis, with which spiritual salvation was sought, through aesthetical transcendence. The answer to this aesthetic and philosophic problem is expressed in a reflection dedicated to the analysis of said phenomenon in the poetics of language in J. Martí, J. Asunción Silva, R. Darío and M. Ángel Silva. In the same extent, this exercise thrives on a journey through the main landmarks of the Philosophy of Language and, with this, establishes a panorama of concepts and categories as a classifying bet of the problem at a thematic level. The objective has been to study Language crisis and critiques in Hispanic-American poetry as a contribution to the understanding of our literary tradition. Said issue finds in Modernism one of its most important foundations in what regards expressive creativity and cultural dialogue, which determines –to a great extent– the present state of contemporary poetry.