Entre la autoficción y la teoría expresiva del arte"Efectos del amor propio" de Miguel Álvarez de Sotomayor (c. 1810)
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Universidad de Cádiz
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ISSN: 0254-9239
Year of publication: 2022
Volume: 46
Issue: 2
Pages: 773-803
Type: Article
More publications in: Lexis: Revista de lingüística y literatura
Abstract
This paper aims to carry out an analysis of the novel Efectos del amor propio (c. 1810) using a broader theoretical framework than the one that has been used so far to study it. Thus, we consider that it can be typified as “autofiction”, a type of novel in which the identity of the main character and that of the author are mixed up, and which is conditioned by a new way of understanding artistic creation that emerged in the early nineteenth century: the “expressive theory of art”, applicable to works whose main purpose was the intimate venting of the author.