“De las Exigencias Genéricas a la Emergencia del Texto Literario: el Problema de los Géneros”

Abstract

This document reports on Nicolás Forero’s involvement in the research project “The discourse genres in quotidian interactions” conducted by Hermeneia research group, where Forero made a study on literary genres based on Discourse analysis. This research is based on the hypothesis that discourse genres are categories that organize the discursive experience and, in their turn, they are frameworks that regulate the textual production. Thus, in the field of literature, this question is raised: Why does a text get to be different from other texts which have been produced in the same genre? In order to solve this interrogation, it makes an analysis of two poetic texts (“And for the last time we met that day…” by Anna Akhmatova and The unknown woman by Alexander Blok) to examine the differences between them. It is concluded that the elements that take part in the differentiation of the texts are the knowledges about tradition which are acquired by author and the knowledge proposed by him from his artistic environment, besides his individuality.