Origin and critical limits of two literary journals. El Renacimiento (México: 1869-1894) and El Nuevo Tiempo Literario (Colombia: 1903-1915, 1927-1929)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is the analysis of two literary journals, mid and late nineteenth century the first Mexican, and early twentieth century Colombia’s second, in order to demonstrate the importance that both media had on the cultural project modernization of their nations, exactly on the issue of the realization of the figure of the nascent literary critic.