"La Argentina" de los Sentimientos en la lírica rioplatense del ciclo revolucionario: 1767-1825

Abstract

The critique to the nineteenth century thought about the predominance of reason as the ultimate foundation of knowledge reveals that what contemporary sources called “nation” during both the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary periods is neither the archaic concept of the “ethnic” nation nor the modern State-Nation. This work aims to provide a careful semantic study of feelings of identity and the words used to express those feelings, shedding light on the development of shared feelings of belonging through an analysis of literary sources published between 1767 and 1825. In order to do so, we resort to poetry, both highbrow – romances, neoclassical poetry (or with neoclassical pretensions) -and popular, which bring us closer to the language of lower/ subaltern classes.