Latin Fiction

Author : Heinz Hofmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134755769

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Latin Fiction by Heinz Hofmann Pdf

Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of the novel and the continuity of Latin culture. Essays by eminent and international contributors discuss texts including: * Petronius, Satyrica and Cena Trimalchionis * Apuleius, Metamorphose(The Golden Ass) and The Tale of Cupid and Psyche * The History of Apollonius of Tyre * The Trojan tales of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis * The Latin Alexander * Hagiographic fiction * Medieval interpretations of Cupid and Pysche, Apollonius of Tyre and the Alexander Romance. For any student or scholar of Latin fiction, or literary history, this will definitely be a book to add to your reading list.

Author : Edward King,Joanna Page
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781911576457

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Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America by Edward King,Joanna Page Pdf

Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their non-human environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world. Praise for Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America '...well-referenced and… well considered - the analyses it brings are overall well-executed and insightful...' Image and Narrative, Jan 2018, vol 18, no 4

Author : M. Ginway,J. Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137312778

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Latin American Science Fiction by M. Ginway,J. Brown Pdf

Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent year.

Author : Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ecology in literature
ISBN : 0813045487

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Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction by Laura Barbas-Rhoden Pdf

Author : Heinz Hofmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415147220

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Latin Fiction by Heinz Hofmann Pdf

Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of the novel and the continuity of Latin culture. Essays by eminent and international contributors discuss texts including: * Petronius, Satyrica and Cena Trimalchionis * Apuleius, Metamorphose(The Golden Ass) and The Tale of Cupid and Psyche * The History of Apollonius of Tyre * The Trojan tales of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis * The Latin Alexander * Hagiographic fiction * Medieval interpretations of Cupid and Pysche, Apollonius of Tyre and the Alexander Romance. For any student or scholar of Latin fiction, or literary history, this will definitely be a book to add to your reading list.

Author : Andrea L. Bell,Yolanda Molina-Gavilán
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819566349

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Cosmos Latinos by Andrea L. Bell,Yolanda Molina-Gavilán Pdf

The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.

Author : Henryk Hoffmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1648893155

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Latin in Modern Fiction by Henryk Hoffmann Pdf

Author : Phillip Swanson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405140850

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Latin American Fiction by Phillip Swanson Pdf

This book introduces readers to the evolution of modern fiction in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Presents Latin American fiction in its cultural and political contexts. Introduces debates about how to read this literature. Combines an overview of the evolution of modern Latin American fiction with detailed studies of key texts. Discusses authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende. Covers nation-building narratives, ‘modernismo’, the New Novel, the Boom, the Post-Boom, Magical Realism, Hispanic fiction in the USA, and more.

Author : Nora Erro-Peralta,Caridad Silva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813017858

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Beyond the Border by Nora Erro-Peralta,Caridad Silva Pdf

A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race, politics, sexual needs, love, old age, and child abuse.

Author : M. Ginway,J. Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137312778

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Latin American Science Fiction by M. Ginway,J. Brown Pdf

Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent year.

Author : Antonio Córdoba,Emily A. Maguire
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031117916

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Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction by Antonio Córdoba,Emily A. Maguire Pdf

This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of agency, and engages in environmentalist theory in ways that are estranging and open to new forms of species companionship. Essays cover literature, film, TV shows, and music, grouped in three sections: “Posthumanist Subjects” examines Latin(x) American iterations of some of the most common figurations of the posthuman, such as the cyborg and virtual environments and selves; “Slow Violence and Environmental Threats” understands that posthumanist meditations in the hemisphere take place in a material and cultural context shaped by the catastrophic destruction of the environment; the chapters in “Posthumanist Others” shows how the reimagination of the self and the world that posthumanism offers may be an opportunity to break the hold that oppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed.

Author : G. Close
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230614635

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Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction by G. Close Pdf

This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index not only of local perceptions of contemporary urban experience and of a contemporary urban "ecology of fear," but also as a transnational index of the globalization of literary forms and markets. It centers on the inscription of urban space in novels set in the metropolitan centers of the Hispanic World: Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona.

Author : Renée W. Craig-Odders,Jacky Collins,Glen S. Close
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786424269

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Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction by Renée W. Craig-Odders,Jacky Collins,Glen S. Close Pdf

The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.

Author : Sara R. Johnson,Rubén R. Dupertuis,Christine Shea
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884142607

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Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction by Sara R. Johnson,Rubén R. Dupertuis,Christine Shea Pdf

The third volume of research on ancient fiction This volume includes essays presented in the Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative section of the Society of Biblical Literature. Contributors explore facets of ongoing research into the interplay of history, fiction, and narrative in ancient Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian texts. The essays examine the ways in which ancient authors in a variety of genre and cultural settings employed a range of narrative strategies to reflect on pressing contemporary issues, to shape community identity, or to provide moral and educational guidance for their readers. Not content merely to offer new insights, this volume also highlights strategies for integrating the fruits of this research into the university classroom and beyond. Features Insight into the latest developments in ancient Mediterranean narrative Exploration of how to use ancient texts to encourage students to examine assumptions about ancient gender and sexuality or to view familiar texts from a new perspective Close readings of classical authors as well as canonical and noncanonical Jewish and Christian texts

Author : Juris Dilevko,Keren Dali,Glenda Garbutt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781598849097

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Contemporary World Fiction by Juris Dilevko,Keren Dali,Glenda Garbutt Pdf

This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions. In a globalized world, knowledge about non-North American societies and cultures is a must. Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation provides an overview of the tremendous range and scope of translated world fiction available in English. In so doing, it will help readers get a sense of the vast world beyond North America that is conveyed by fiction titles from dozens of countries and language traditions. Within the guide, approximately 1,000 contemporary non-English-language fiction titles are fully annotated and thousands of others are listed. Organization is primarily by language, as language often reflects cultural cohesion better than national borders or geographies, but also by country and culture. In addition to contemporary titles, each chapter features a brief overview of earlier translated fiction from the group. The guide also provides in-depth bibliographic essays for each chapter that will enable librarians and library users to further explore the literature of numerous languages and cultural traditions.