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The Prose Poem At The Outset Of The Modernist Period In Latin America, Jesse Fernández Jan 1977

The Prose Poem At The Outset Of The Modernist Period In Latin America, Jesse Fernández

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The main purpose of the study is to trace the beginnings of the "prose poem" in the works of the first generation of modernist writers in Latin American letters. The origins of the new literary genre, conceived as such by its authors, go back to the nineteenth century in France, where several writers experimented with a kind of "poetic prose" that was to culminate around the middle of the century in the works of Aloysius Bertrand and Charles Baudelaire.

It became necessary, therefore, to dedicate the entire first chapter to examine the more influential French authors of the period, as …