Abstract

RISCO, Ana María. THE «TRAGIC FABLES» THAT CORRUPT THE SOCIETY. MORAL CONDEMNATION OF POPULAR LITERATURE IN THE ARGENTINE PRESS AT THE BEGINNINGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2014, n.65, pp.175-189. ISSN 0120-5587.

At the beginnings of the 20th century, in Argentine, the particular attention of the press to the newspaper serials produces a rejection discourse to a «popular rhetoric» by readers associated to an illustrated intelligentsia, compromised in building a uni-versalistic moral sentiment through the high culture. This is the particular case of the Federico Quevedo Hijosa's article Las fábulas trágicas, published in the journal El Orden of Tucumán (03/01/1912). On this paper, we analyse the presuppositions that reveal the intention to eliminate from the literature the popular elements considerate «immoral».

Keywords : Newspaper Serials; Tucumán; Popular Literature.

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