La épica de los Jesuitas: juicios y comentarios sobre "El Bernardo", de Balbuena

Claudia Garcia-Minguillan (1) , Claudia García-Minguillán

1 Poitiers UFR LL - Université de Poitiers - UFR Lettres et langues

Since the second half of the XVIII century, Spain needed to demonstrate the rest of European nations the quality of its literature. They tried in different ways to recover canonic texts that could show an image of national value. One of these ways was, for instance, the assessment of the epic genre. In this essay, we analyze the aim of Juan Francisco Masdeu, expelled Jesuit, who, with other members of the Company, recovered the figure of Bernardo de Balbuena and his heroic poem "El Bernardo o Victoria de Roncesvalles" (1624) with the objective of proposing Balbuena as the Spanish version of Tasso.

Mots clés: Epic poetry; Jesuits; Bernardo de Balbuena; "El Bernardo"; Juan Francisco Masdeu

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Claudia Garcia-Minguillan, Claudia García-Minguillán. La épica de los Jesuitas: juicios y comentarios sobre "El Bernardo", de Balbuena. Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII, 2018, 28, pp.73. ⟨10.17811/cesxviii.28.2018.73-93⟩. ⟨hal-02951877⟩