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Narrative Irony in the Contemporary Spanish-American Novel

Jonathan Tittler
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Author : Jonathan Tittler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501743696

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"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.

Satire in Colonial Spanish America

Julie Greer Johnson
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Author : Julie Greer Johnson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292760929

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Satire in Colonial Spanish America by Julie Greer Johnson Pdf

Satire, the use of criticism cloaked in wit, has been employed since classical times to challenge the established order of society. In colonial Spanish America during the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, many writers used satire to resist Spanish-imposed social and literary forms and find an authentic Latin American voice. This study explores the work of eight satirists of the colonial period and shows how their literary innovations had a formative influence on the development of the modern Latin American novel, essay, and autobiography. The writers studied here include Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan del Valle y Caviedes, Cristóbal de Llerena, and Eugenio Espejo. Johnson chronicles how they used satire to challenge the "New World as Utopia" myth propagated by Spanish authorities and criticize the Catholic church for its role in fulfilling imperialistic designs. She also shows how their marginalized status as Creoles without the rights and privileges of their Spanish heritage made them effective satirists. From their writings, she asserts, emerges the first self-awareness and national consciousness of Spanish America. By linking the two great periods of Latin American literarure—the colonial writers and the modern generation—Satire in Colonial Spanish America makes an important contribution to Latin American literature and culture studies. It will also be of interest to all literary scholars who study satire.

The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

Raymond Leslie Williams
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Author : Raymond Leslie Williams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292774025

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The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel by Raymond Leslie Williams Pdf

A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.

Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction

Naomi Lindstrom
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Author : Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292746817

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Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction by Naomi Lindstrom Pdf

Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. Yet these "blockbusters" are only a tiny fraction of the total, rich outpouring of Spanish-language literature from Latin America. In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil). Discussing movements and trends, she places the famous masterworks in historical perspective and highlights authors and works that deserve a wider readership. Her study begins with Rodó's famous essay Ariel and ends with Rigoberta Menchú's 1992 achievement of the Nobel Prize. Her selection of works is designed to draw attention, whenever possible, to works that are available in good English translations. A special feature of the book is its treatment of the "postboom" period. In this important concluding section, Lindstrom discusses documentary narratives, the new interrelations between popular culture and literary writing, and underrepresented groups such as youth cultures, slum dwellers, gays and lesbians, and ethnic enclaves. Written in accessible, nonspecialized language, Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction will be equally useful for general readers as a broad overview of this vibrant literature and for scholars as a reliable reference work.

Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel

Paul R. McAleer
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Author : Paul R. McAleer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662971

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Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel by Paul R. McAleer Pdf

The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo.

Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals)

David William Foster
Handbook of Latin American Literature Routledge Revivals Book PDF

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317518266

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Handbook of Latin American Literature (Routledge Revivals) by David William Foster Pdf

First published in 1987 (this second edition in 1992), the Handbook of Latin American Literature offers readers the opportunity to explore this literary history in the English Language and constitutes an ideological approach to Latin American Literature. It provides both concise information concerning particular authors, works, and literary traditions of Latin America as well as comprehensive material about the various national literatures of the area. This book will therefore be of interest to Hispanic scholars, as well as more general readers and non-Hispanists.

Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America

Judith A. Payne,Earl E. Fitz
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Author : Judith A. Payne,Earl E. Fitz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587291821

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Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America by Judith A. Payne,Earl E. Fitz Pdf

In this first book-length study to compare the "new novels" of both Spanish America and Brazil, the authors deftly examine the differing perceptions of ambiguity as they apply to questions of gender and the participation of females and males in the establishment of Latin American narrative models. Their daring thesis: the Brazilian new novel developed a more radical form than its better-known Spanish-speaking cousin because it had a significantly different approach to the crucial issues of ambiguity and gender and because so many of its major practitioners were women. As a wise strategy for assessing the canonical new novels from Latin America, the coupling of ambiguity and gender enables Payne and Fitz to discuss how borders--literary, generic, and cultural--are maintained, challenged, or crossed. Their conclusions illuminate the contributions of the new novel in terms of experimental structures and narrative techniques as well as the significant roles of voice, theme, and language. Using Jungian theory and a poststructural optic, the authors also demonstrate how the Latin American new novel faces such universal subjects as myth, time, truth, and reality. Perhaps the most original aspect of their study lies in its analysis of Brazil's strong female tradition. Here, issues such as alternative visions, contrasexuality, self-consciousness, and ontological speculation gain new meaning for the future of the novel in Latin America. With its comparative approach and its many bilingual quotations, Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America offers an engaging picture of the marked differences between the literary traditions of Portuguese-speaking and Spanish-speaking America and, thus, new insights into the distinctive mindsets of these linguistic cultures.

The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories

Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
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Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195130850

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The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Pdf

This collection brings together 53 stories that span the history of Latin American literature and represent the most dazzling achievements in the form. It covers the entire history of Latin American short fiction, from the colonial period to present.

Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel

Aníbal González
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Author : Aníbal González
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292779006

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Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel by Aníbal González Pdf

The Latin American Literary Boom was marked by complex novels steeped in magical realism and questions of nationalism, often with themes of surreal violence. In recent years, however, those revolutionary projects of the sixties and seventies have given way to quite a different narrative vision and ideology. Dubbed the new sentimentalism, this trend is now keenly elucidated in Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel. Offering a rich account of the rise of this new mode, as well as its political and cultural implications, Aníbal González delivers a close reading of novels by Miguel Barnet, Elena Poniatowska, Isabel Allende, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Gabriel García Márquez, Antonio Skármeta, Luis Rafael Sánchez, and others. González proposes that new sentimental novels are inspired principally by a desire to heal the division, rancor, and fear produced by decades of social and political upheaval. Valuing pop culture above the avant-garde, such works also tend to celebrate agape—the love of one's neighbor—while denouncing the negative effects of passion (eros). Illuminating these and other aspects of post-Boom prose, Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel takes a fresh look at contemporary works.

The Fiction of Juan Rulfo

Amit Thakkar
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Author : Amit Thakkar
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662384

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The Fiction of Juan Rulfo by Amit Thakkar Pdf

This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years, analyzing a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection and also two of the main characters of hismasterpiece, Pedro Páramo. This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also examines in great depth two of the main characters of Pedro Páramo (1955), Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel. The book shows how Rulfo's works can be read as exercises in irony directed againstthe rhetoric of post-Revolutionary Mexican governments. It also demonstrates the relevance of certain legacies of colony in Rulfo's use of irony. Successive Mexican governments promoted a vision of post-Revolutionary society founded on specific notions of ethnicity, family, nation, education, religion and rural politics. The author combines examination of the speeches, images and newspaper articles which disseminated this vision with incisive literary analyses of Rulfo's work. These analyses are informed both by his original theory of irony, based on "internal" and "external" referents, and by existing postcolonial theories, particularly those of Homi K. Bhabha. Amit Thakkar is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University.

Irony's Edge

Linda Hutcheon
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Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134937547

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Irony's Edge by Linda Hutcheon Pdf

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.

The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987

Raymond Leslie Williams
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Author : Raymond Leslie Williams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292788503

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The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987 by Raymond Leslie Williams Pdf

Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides an overview of seventeen major authors and more than one hundred works spanning the years 1844 to 1987. After an introductory discussion of Colombian regionalism and novelistic development, Williams considers the novels produced in Colombia's four semi-autonomous regions. The Interior Highland Region is represented by novels ranging from Eugenio Díaz' Manuela to Eduardo Caballero Calderón's El buen salvaje. The Costa Region is represented by Juan José Nieto's Ingermina to Alvaro Cepeda Samudio's La casa grande and Gabriel García Márquez' Cien años de soledad; the Greater Antioquian Region by Tomás Carrasquilla's Frutos de mi tierra to Manuel Mejía Vallejo's El día señalado; and the Greater Cauca Region by Jorge Isaacs' Maria to Gustavo Alvarez Gardeazábal's El bazar de los idiotas. A discussion of the modern and postmodern novel concludes the study, with special consideration given to the works of García Márquez and Moreno-Durán. Written in a style accessible to a wide audience, The Colombian Novel will be a foundational work for all students of Colombian culture and Latin American literature.

Teaching the Latin American Boom

Lucille Kerr,Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
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Author : Lucille Kerr,Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291934

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Teaching the Latin American Boom by Lucille Kerr,Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola Pdf

In the decade from the early 1960s to the early 1970s, Latin American authors found themselves writing for a new audience in both Latin America and Spain and in an ideologically charged climate as the Cold War found another focus in the Cuban Revolution. The writers who emerged in this energized cultural moment--among others, Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Cuba), José Donoso (Chile), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Manuel Puig (Argentina), and Mario Varas Llosa (Peru)--experimented with narrative forms that sometimes bore a vexed relation to the changing political situations of Latin America. This volume provides a wide range of options for teaching the complexities of the Boom, explores the influence of Boom works and authors, presents different frameworks for thinking about the Boom, proposes ways to approach it in the classroom, and provides resources for selecting materials for courses.

Jewish Writers of Latin America

Darrell B. Lockhart
Jewish Writers of Latin America Book PDF

Author : Darrell B. Lockhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134754205

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Jewish Writers of Latin America by Darrell B. Lockhart Pdf

Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first comprehensive bibliographical and critical source book on Latin American Jewish literature. It represents the research efforts of 50 scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Israel who are dedicated to the advancement of Latin American Jewish studies. An introduction by the editor is followed by entries on 118 authors that provide both biographical information and a critical summary of works. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-home to the largest Jewish communities in Latin America-are the countries with the greatest representation, but there are essays on writers from Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Cuba.

Studies in the Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story

David William Foster
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Author : David William Foster
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002608672

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Studies in the Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story by David William Foster Pdf

This work deals with selected Latin-American writers of short stories and, in the case of each author, with only one or a limited number of texts. No attempt has been made to write a history of the contemporary short story in Latin America or even to deal with a canon of representative authors. Each of the texts studied has been chosen because it is indicative of a facet of the short story that parallels the so-called Latin American new novel.