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Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana: una metáfora del cambio

Gutiérrez, Arturo J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242832373

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2009, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures.
The purpose of this investigation is to determine the different strategiesVenezuelan poets employed to represent the city from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. This study, which is both diachronic and synchronous, explores diverse elements (symbolic, aesthetic-literary, ideological, economic, social, and political) that have contributed to this poetic representation of the city. Successive topics in this study are identified as forming the warp and woof of a tradition by which today‘s Venezuelan poetry is woven and with which it continues to engage in dialogue. More than 350 poems and about 70 poets, from Andrés Bello (1781-1865) to contemporary poets, are examined. The study comprises seven chapters, including the introduction and the conclusion. Chapter two provides the theoretical and methodological framework, as well as a bibliographical survey of the most important works published in North America, Europe, and Latin America, and of course, to the works published in Venezuela. Chapter three explores the representation of the city in the poetry of the period from the beginning of the republican era after the wars of independence to the regime of Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1870-1887). Under the Guzmán Blanco presidency, Caracas became known as the Petit Paris. It is this Caracas that is the focus of chapter four; here are studied the works of the romantic and modernist poets who lived or sojourned in the Venezuelan capital during this era (1870-1900). Chapters five and six treat the most relevant forms of the poetic representation of the city in the 20th century. The first of these chapters covers the period of the Andean hegemony (Cipriano Castro, 1899-1908 and Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935). During this period, which witnessed the beginning of the petroleum era in Venezuela and the consequent acceleration of urbanization, Venezuelan poets belonging to the post-modern and to the vanguard schools reconfigured the nation‘s urban, symbolic constructs. In chapter six, the analysis concentrates on the works of Juan Liscano, Luz Machado, Juan Calzadilla, and Eugenio Montejo; these works bridge the proposals initiated by poets of the first half of the 20th century (generations of the "18","28", and "Viernes") to those formulated in the 1980s by such groups as Tráfico and Guaire. Throughout the study, several central concepts are used to frame the overall argument. Among these concepts are the following: Henri Lefebvre‘s "social space," which provides a historical and sychronous approach useful for the study of city poetry, thus enabling a perspective which I call "multifactorial" to allow for the multi-dimensional nature of this relationship; Wolfgang Iser‘s "imaginary" as a concept complementary to Aristotelian mimesis; and, Gaston Bachelard‘s concept of "imagination" as a dynamic principle of metaphoric organization of the representation. The above concepts work as elements of mediation between "reality" and "fiction" and whose participation determine the implicit processes of all possible representations of space, viz., the space of the city and of urban life.
Armando Romero, PhD (Advisor)
Enrique Giordano, PhD (Committee Member)
Nicasio Urbina, PhD (Committee Member)
629 p.
Latin American Literature
city poetry; venezuelan poetry; poetic representation

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  • Gutiérrez, A. J. (2009). Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana: una metáfora del cambio [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242832373

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  • Gutiérrez, Arturo. Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana: una metáfora del cambio. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242832373.

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  • Gutiérrez, Arturo. "Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana: una metáfora del cambio." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242832373

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