La Poesia De Juan Bautista Aguirre. (Spanish Text)

This study deals with one of the most important poets of the Spanish American colonial times. His works, unpublished until 1943, have long been forgotten by the critics, and deserve a closer look. We studied the most representative of his poems, and related them to the literary tradition of Europe and Latin America. We observed and pointed out the differences between the predominant artistic movement of the time--baroque--in the Colony and in Spain. The most outstanding difference lies in the deep structure of most works by Latin American writers: a close reading of the text allows us to perceive the function that art in general played during those years. Almost every artistic work has a didactic message, based on the teachings of the Catholic Church. The poet and the preacher is, in most cases, the same person.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Spanish

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Cevallos-Candau, Francisco J.

• Literature, Latin American

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8203420

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67867