Critical Projects and Historical Thinking in Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Alfonso Reyes and José Carlos Mariátegui’s Essays

Abstract

I analize Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Alfonso Reyes and José Carlos Mariátegui’s criticism works in which it can be found the search for the accurated methods for literature studing in its relation to social life. Our intellectuals consider Spanish american literary production as a heterogeneous corpus that must be read linked to the cultural and historical processes that breed it and that it participates in. Historical and critical thought is the key to make Literary Studies an authentic manifestation of modern intelligentsia.