Contemporary Spanish American Fiction

Author : Will H. Corral,Juan E. De Castro,Nicholas Birns
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441123947

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The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel by Will H. Corral,Juan E. De Castro,Nicholas Birns Pdf

The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.

Author : Jefferson Rea Spell
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819602116

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Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction by Jefferson Rea Spell Pdf

Author : Gladys M. Varona-Lacey
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0658015060

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Contemporary Latin American Literature by Gladys M. Varona-Lacey Pdf

Contemporary Latin American Literature reflects the wealth of great writers of Latin America over the last hundred years, including Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Noble Prize winners Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel Garcia Márquez. The selections--almost 100 works in their original form--include English definitions for difficult Spanish words.

Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199912964

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Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Pdf

This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban Revolution sparked a movement in the novel that came to be known as the Boom. Within this narrative, the author covers all of the major writers of Latin American literature, from Andr?s Bello and Jos? Mar?a de Heredia, through Borges and Garc?a M?rquez, to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bola?o.

Author : Lloyd Hughes Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786835765

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Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture by Lloyd Hughes Davies Pdf

This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina: while, on the one hand, the country’s vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, the urban population of Buenos Aires, on the other, appears to be especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The book considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by a form of literary madness, and that of larger literary figures such as José Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the ‘other side’ of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.

Author : Aníbal Gonzalez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822983026

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In Search of the Sacred Book by Aníbal Gonzalez Pdf

In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity’s powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges’s secularized “narrative theology” in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to “sacralize” the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the “desacralization” of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.

Author : Philip Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620280

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Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (Routledge Revivals) by Philip Swanson Pdf

In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of Latin American fiction, for such novels dubbed ‘new novels’ were being written in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. In this edited collection, first published in 1990, Philip Swanson charts the development of Latin American fiction throughout the twentieth century. He assesses the impact of the ‘new novel’ on Latin American literature, and follows its growth. Nine key texts are analysed by contributors, including works by the ‘big four’ of the ‘Boom’ – Fuentes, Cortázar, Garcia Márquez and Vargas Llosa. This book will be of interest to critics and teachers of Latin American literature, and will be useful too as supplementary reading for students of Spanish and Hispanic Studies. It will also serve as a helpful introduction to those new to Latin American fiction.

Author : Donald Leslie Shaw
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 9781855660786

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A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction by Donald Leslie Shaw Pdf

With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garc a M rquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.

Author : Susan Carvalho
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015069034471

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Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women by Susan Carvalho Pdf

A reading of contemporary women's fiction in Spanish America in which space, rather than time, is seen as the driver of the narrative. Space is critical to imaginative writing. As English novelist Elizabeth Bowen has observed: 'nothing can happen nowhere'. This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for reading novels, and in particular women's fiction in Spanish America, with a focus on geoplot, on space rather than time as the narrative engine. Following the work of Lefebvre and Friedman, the author examines recent works by Spanish America's most visible women novelists - Angeles Mastretta [Mexico], Isabel Allende [Chile], Rosario Ferré [Puerto Rico], Sara Sefchovich [Mexico] and Laura Restrepo [Colombia] -and the ways in which their female protagonists challenge the spatial barriers erected by capitalist hegemony. Margins, borders, liminal spaces, the chora-space, and the body are emphasized as potential sites of transgression. The analysis identifies spatial negotiation as a mechanism both for cementing and for undermining authority, thus exposing the strategies through which literature constructs and represents power. SUSAN CARVALHO is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School.

Author : Donald L. Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1187113313

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A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction by Donald L. Shaw Pdf

Author : Jonathan Tittler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501743696

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Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish-American Novel by Jonathan Tittler Pdf

"As a narrative device, irony in the Latin American novel has been treated before in a rather fragmented, non-systematic way. It needed a cohesive study based on close textual examination of several major novels. Professor Tittler has done just that and done it well. This book is the best and most comprehensive study of the ironic mode that we have."-Myron I. Lichtblau, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Syracuse University In this book Jonathan Tittler explores some of the many possibilities that the concept of irony holds for literary criticism. Identifying irony as a characteristic property of Spanish-American fiction, Tittler offers close readings of seven important novels: Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz, Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, Manuel Puig's Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers, Mario Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Julio Cortazar's A Manual for Manuel, and Isaac Goldemberg's The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner. Tittler begins with a comprehensive review of existing theories of irony, in all of which the concept of narrative distance plays a major role. Next he proposes his own innovative model for critical reading made up of two basic forms of irony, which he terms "static" and "kinetic." He then applies the model systematically to his readings of the texts-four in the static mode, and three in the kinetic, linguistically self-conscious mode. Tittler concludes by reflecting on the relationship between irony and the novel, asserting that in the light of actual events in Spanish America, the novels themselves, and the critical discourse in which they are evoked, may be regarded as ironic phenomena.

Author : Cecily Raynor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684482580

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Latin American Literature at the Millennium by Cecily Raynor Pdf

Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson Bueno to reveal representations of the human experience that unsettle conventionally understood links between locality and geographical place. The book raises vital considerations for understanding the region’s transition into the twenty-first century, and for evaluating Latin American authors’ representations of everyday place and modes of belonging.

Author : Will H. Corral
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 147254398X

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The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel by Will H. Corral Pdf

The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer inc.

Author : Jean Franco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521449235

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An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature by Jean Franco Pdf

A revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's "Introduction to Spanish-American Literature", first published in 1969.

Author : Susan Carvalho
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 185566142X

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Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women by Susan Carvalho Pdf

A reading of contemporary women's fiction in Spanish America in which space, rather than time, is seen as the driver of the narrative. Space is critical to imaginative writing. As English novelist Elizabeth Bowen has observed: 'nothing can happen nowhere'. This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for reading novels, and in particular women's fiction in Spanish America, with a focus on geoplot, on space rather than time as the narrative engine. Following the work of Lefebvre and Friedman, the author examines recent works by Spanish America's most visible women novelists - Angeles Mastretta [Mexico], Isabel Allende [Chile], Rosario Ferré [Puerto Rico], Sara Sefchovich [Mexico] and Laura Restrepo [Colombia] -and the ways in which their female protagonists challenge the spatial barriers erected by capitalist hegemony. Margins, borders, liminal spaces, the chora-space, and the body are emphasized as potential sites of transgression. The analysis identifies spatial negotiation as a mechanism both for cementing and for undermining authority, thus exposing the strategies through which literature constructs and represents power. SUSAN CARVALHO is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School.