Tres rasgos estilísticos de la Hernandia (1755): hacia una identidad americana

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the Gongorism, the polyglotism and the imitatio auctoris of New Spain poets in Hernandia, an 18th century epic poem for which authorship is attributable to the Novohispanic Francisco Ruiz de León as well as to the Spaniard Juan de Buedo y Girón. The study of these three stylistic elements, barely reviewed or unnoticed in previous works, suggests a direct connection to an American context, especially regarding the knowledge of Nahuatl and 17th century Novohispanic poetry, which supports Novohispanic authorship rather than a Spanish one.