La polifonía: estrategia argumentativa primaria del texto biográfico Yo quiero que me olviden: la historia de Marta Romero

Abstract

This article will examine the biography Yo quiero que me olviden: la historia de Marta Romero by Victor Federico Torres as an argumentative text using a narrative macrostructure. The narrative macrostructure allows the use of many discursive strategies including polyphony. The biographical text is not only considered under a new generic paradigm: the argumentative, but simultaneously these kinds of texts impose specific rhetorical scaffolding: the epideictic. Because it's ultimate goal is to praise or blame a person. The paper identifies three main arguments. The multiplicity of voices is the rhetorical support of the arguments developed in this biography. The polyphonic argument gives the illusion of objectivity, but the intent behind the epideictic rhetoric is persuasive. The biographer polyphonically reconstructs an ethos, and in this way he gave a new signification to a myth.