Desglosar la memoria. La sensibilidad del tiempo en la obra poesía de José Antonio Ramos Sucre

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dc.contributor.advisorAguilar Mora, Jorgeen_US
dc.contributor.authorGonzález, Pausidesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSpanish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-19T06:59:33Z
dc.date.available2010-02-19T06:59:33Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explores the theme of memory in the poetry of José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890-1930), a Venezuelan poet associated with the country's first literary vanguard group known as the "Generación del 18". In order to fully understand the poetry of Ramos Sucre, it is important to begin by looking at the thematic shift that occurred in his writing when his interest in the glorious past of the nation completely gave way to a poetically recreated notion of universal memory. Such displacement can be seen as a manifestation of what Walter Benjamin called "loss of experience." Through this lens, it is possible to show that the work of Ramos Sucre is part of a collective sense of grief born mainly from the Venezuelan reality of the nineteen twenties, the years during which the country was deeply entrenched in the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez. The sense of grief is expressed through a poetic subject, the "I" in Ramos Sucre's poems, which is tied to a continual remembrance, and specifically to the experiences that are part of its duration. Here it becomes clear that Ramos Sucre's work was greatly influenced by the philosophy of Henri Bergson. This dissertation performs an unconventional reading of the poetic work of Ramos Sucre, in which the existence of a single self is identified, a single "I" that is capable of remembering all of his own experiences. Finally, this dissertation shows how the poetic subject in Ramos Sucre's poetry expresses his memory through writing, and how the purpose of his writing is to achieve his own oblivion. We conclude our work by considering the orphic nature of that oblivion, so that the "loss of experience", expressed through an exceptional voice of the Venezuelan vanguard such as Ramos Sucre, ends up being replaced by the need for a return to the orphic country that so captivated the imagination of the Romantic poets.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9959
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiterature, Latin Americanen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAestheticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAllegoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDurationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHenri Bergsonen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMemoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOblivionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRamos Sucreen_US
dc.titleDesglosar la memoria. La sensibilidad del tiempo en la obra poesía de José Antonio Ramos Sucreen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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