Leer versos con los ojos de la historia: literatura y nacion en Ricardo Rojas y Jorge Luis Borges

The article analyzes the representations of "Argentinity"/"Argentine Identity" from the construction of the literary canon in the twenties. In this opportunity we chose to confront the essayistcs by Ricardo Rojas and Jorge Luis Borges. To our opinion, the bases on the existence or the voluntary construction of a "history of the National Literature" discovers its selection mechanisms, hermeneutics and supports, the conflict to define the meanings of the national identity. Particularist or universalist, traditionalist or vanguardist, the matter goes beyond the field of literature and it establis...

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