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"Por Un Clavo Se Pierde Un Reino": Alfonso Reyes, The Generation Of 1927, And The Imperial Appropriation Of Góngora, Aurora Hermida-Ruiz

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

The displacement of Alfonso Reyes to the periphery of “nuestro centenario” highlights some of the major questions concerning the Generation of 1927 and its impact on the modern appreciation of Góngora and the definition of gongorismo. Considering that Rubén Darío was widely perceived to be the origin of the modern cult of Góngora in Spanish, the stature of Alfonso Reyes as “primer gongorista de las nuevas generaciones” meant a new form of primacy that clearly pointed to the dominance of Latin America in the narrative of contemporary poetics. Thanks to Foulché, who had carefully made his own discovery of …