La prosa de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer en los límites de la poesía

Análisis estilométrico

Abstract

In addition to being one of the greatest poets and writers of all time, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870) is considered the great precursor of the prose poem in Spanish literature, which he cultivated, together with poetic prose, in some of his Legends. Although scholars have generally accepted the prose poem and poetic prose classification of Bécquer's works proposed by Luis Cernuda, many add other texts in which they believe one of these two modalities to be present. In this study, stylometric methods are applied in order to determine which texts are closer to the lyric genre. At the same time, the aim is to explore whether it is possible, by means of these techniques, to make a gradation of Bécquer’s prose texts towards the lyric genre. The results will help to shed new light on Bécquer's lyric work in prose, and will provide an example of how Stylometry may contribute to the analysis of borderline literary genres, such as the prose poem.