El fin de la elocuencia : figuraciones de lo poético y transformación lingüística en Buenos Aires a mediados del siglo XX

Abstract

Differing notions of what was poetic coexisted in Buenos Aires in mid twentieth century, based on a changing linguistic foundation that was in turn the product of important social changes. Traditional notions, often maintained by those supporting change, persisted in an ideal of eloquence, understood as the area of language related to proper speech. Renewing concepts of the poetic were based on avant-garde figurations, which also found it difficult to unburden themselves from certain particularities. This essay recounts such notions in regards to the context of new symbolic relations by analyzing some representative periodicals and other pertinent texts.