Abstract

ROJAS OTALORA, Jorge Enrique. Neoclassical Poetics in the Literature of the Independence Period: La Tocaimada. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.1, pp.121-139. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.v17n1.48691.

The article shows how the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism constitute the basis for the production of intellectuals and writers who expressed insurgent ideas toward the end of the Colonial period in Santafé de Bogotá. Through the analysis of the literary production of one of these enlightened authors, José Ángel Manrique, it illustrates how political concerns are combined with aesthetic creation. Manrique's work, La Tocaimada, is a parody that manages to successfully integrate politics and aesthetics, in order to reveal a conflictive situation through a playful version of the Olympus. The author resorts to the play of classical allusions to structure his text and provide a critical view of the circumstances during the period of the Viceroyalty.

Keywords : Enlightenment; Neoclassicism; parody; classical allusions; Viceroyalty.

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