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Most of the literature about Revista Moderna (1898-1903) and Revista Moderna de México (1903-1911) assumes that both publications integrate a single editorial project because of its affiliation with the Latin American modernism, particularly with that of the second generation, which presented a more decadent aspect. Although some scholars have noted the differences between the two formats, the petit revue and the North American styled magazine, the truth is that Revista Moderna de México has been reviewed in very similar terms to its predecessor, that is, as a literary, elitist and minority magazine, representative of a group with a specific literary positioning. In this paper, I will examine some of the devices that the editors of Revista Moderna de México used to articulate this transformation not only of format, but also of discursive positioning, mediated by the political and publishing market conditions from that time. This study pretends to draw attention to the set of negotiations and resistance that some agents of the literary field carried out through their professionalization process and their search for an alleged autonomy regarding other recognition figures during the transition from the 19th century to the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is not exactly known how many women dared to write literature in Argentina during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is highly probable there were more than those registered in literary histories. While the more progressive intellectuals promoted a type of literature that would contribute to the progress of this young nation, that is, a literature useful and moral to educate both men and women, social prejudice against novels and women writers was renewed. Women who published stand out for having trespassed those barriers, for their deep need to write, to express their opinions and fantasies, and also for wanting to be acknowledged as writers. This paper presents two of the most forgotten ones: Margarita Rufina Ochagavía, author of "An agel and a demon, or The value of a promise" (Un ángel y un demonio, o El valor de un juramento; 1857), and M. Sasor (Mercedes Rosas de Rivera), author of "María de Montiel: a Contemporary Novel" ( María de Montiel: Novela contemporánea; 1861) and "Emma or a Proscript's Daughter" (Emma o La hija de un proscripto; 1863), respectively. In particular, this paper examines the idea of novel they have, the readings they have done, the description of Argentine society present in their plots, and the ideological contents defended by both women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on contributions from historical reading, bibliographical material and analyses of Louis Marin's visual representation, this paper addresses the formats of a group of printed texts published by the gaucho-esque writer Luis Peréz between 1830 and 1833, specifically a series of loose leaf pages and the two newspapers El Gaucho and La Gaucha. Its aim is to explore links between the material features of these works, the type of reader which the author attempted to attract, and the meaning and ideology of his texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In El Torito de los Muchachos (1830), Luis Pérez deploys voices, not always Gauchos and Federalists, but sometimes Uniterian and literate, who utter fictional truths in the form of a confession. In a historical moment in which the press was a vehicle of influence on public opinion, Pérez aims his publications toward broad swaths of the public to include of illiterate groups through oral readings. This paper analyzes the ways in which these confessions allowed truths to stand up amid a war of words, as they sought to occupy an imagined public space on whose field discursive conflicts were fought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Dos partidos en lucha (1875), and especially in La bolsa de huesos (1896), Eduardo Holmberg configures fictional narrations in which Darwinian theories and the contemporary debates and dilemmas of science acquire a significant centrality. In both cases, and in addition to an emphatic adherence to Darwinism and a clear apology for the scope of scientific practice, it is possible to detect a problematization of the institutional place of science, its feasible connections with the society and politics, and its role within the state structure. As a correlate, both narrations reveal tensions around and reformulations of one of their central axes, which is also central to the work of Charles Darwin: the modes of thinking, emphasizing or relativizing the link between human life and animal life. The aim of this paper is to address the interaction between these two issues in Holmberg's fictions, through a contrastive textual analysis that contemplates the cultural context of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rise of the novel in Argentina was closely related to the Buenos Aires's press. On the one hand, newspapers became tools to shape the public opinion; on the other hand, they developed into fields where the novel was used to explore the processes of social changes. This paper has been dedicated to the analysis of the South American newspaper (1884-1892) and its serials, as far as its communicational strategies that joined every section may concern. At the same time, it has been written to investigate the use of the novel as a political instrument to reinforce the newspaper's propaganda. At first, it describes the Argentine press modernization process during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Then, it provides details about the mayor features of South America regarding its treatment of political news. Finally, it considers some of the novels published in it, particularly Fruto vedado by Paul Groussac, focusing on its enunciation frames in order to establish links with other political messages of the newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]