Spanish American Fiction

Author : Dan Russek
Publisher : Latin American and Caribbean S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1552387836

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Textual Exposures by Dan Russek Pdf

Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography's powers and limitations, and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated in fictional form the conventions and assumptions of this medium. While the book is essentially a study of literary criticism, it also aims to show how texts critically reflect upon the media environment in which they were created. The writings analyzed enter a dialogic relation with visual technologies such as the x-ray, cinema, illustrated journalism, and television. The study examines how these technologies, historically and aesthetically linked to the photographic medium, inform the works of some of the most important writers in Latin America. Methodologically, the close readings of the texts centre on the figure of ekphrasis (defined as the verbal representation of a visual representation). The book is concerned with the thematic, symbolic, structural and cultural imprints photography leaves in narrative texts. The author relies on an immanent approach, reading the selected texts according to their own specificities and making the relevant thematic and structural connections between them drawing from a variety of sources in the fields of literary criticism and theory and history of photography.

Author : Jefferson Rea Spell
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819602116

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Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction by Jefferson Rea Spell Pdf

Author : Jean Franco
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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 : Donald Leslie Shaw
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Donald L. Shaw
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438419718

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The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction by Donald L. Shaw Pdf

What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism.

Author : Lloyd Hughes Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Kessel Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005691954

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A New History of Spanish American Fiction: Social concern, universalism, and the new novel by Kessel Schwartz Pdf

These volumes present a multitude of Spanish-American literature's greatest works. From the earliest extant writings through the literature of the 1980s, the author draws on the latest scholarship and she presents each literary genre fully in its own section, making it easy for the reader to follow the development of poetry, the drama, the novel, other prose fiction, and nonfiction prose. A full index easily enables the reader to find all references to any individual author or book. Another noteworthy feature of this two volume set is the comprehensive attention the author accords nonfiction prose, including, for example, essays, philosophy, literary criticism, politics, and historiography.

Author : Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Spanish American fiction
ISBN : 0853233063

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Spanish-American Fiction by Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Staff Pdf

Author : Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : 9781134399604

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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 by Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.

Author : Terry J. Peavler,Peter Standish
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791428400

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Structures of Power by Terry J. Peavler,Peter Standish Pdf

Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction.

Author : Will H. Corral,Juan E. De Castro,Nicholas Birns
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Deborah N. Cohn
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826518040

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The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism During the Cold War by Deborah N. Cohn Pdf

How the dissemination of Latin American literature in the U.S. was "caught between the desire to support the literary revolution of the Boom writers and the fear of revolutionary politics" (John King).

Author : John S. Brushwood
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292771444

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The Spanish American Novel by John S. Brushwood Pdf

In The Spanish American Novel, John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality. In relating the generic history of the novel to extraliterary events in Spanish America, he shows how twentieth-century fiction sets forth the essence of such phenomena as the first Perón regime, the Mexican Revolution, the Che Guevara legend, indigenismo, and the strongman political type. In essence, he views the novel as art rather than as document, but not as art alienated from society. The discussion is organized chronologically, opening with the turn of the century and focusing on novels from 1900 to 1915 that exemplify various aspects of the nineteenth-century literary inheritance. Brushwood then highlights the avant-garde fiction (influenced by Proust and Joyce) of the 1920s as a precursory movement to the “new” Latin American novel, a phenomenon that came into its own during the 1940s. He then examines the “boom” in Spanish American fiction, the period of extensive international recognition of certain works, which he dates from 1962 or 1963. In each era considered, the development of the novel is placed in dual perspective. One view—that of particularly significant novels in light of others published during the same year—is a cross section of the genre at one particular moment. The second view—that of a panorama of novels published in intervals between significant moments in the history of the novel—is more general and selective in the number of books discussed. Combining the historical with the analytical approach, the author proposes that the experience of a novel in which reality has been transformed into art is essential to our understanding of that reality.

Author : Efraín Kristal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827058

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The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel by Efraín Kristal Pdf

The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions whose cultural and geopolitical particularities are often overlooked. Indispensable to students of Latin American or Hispanic studies and those interested in comparative literature and the development of the novel as genre, the Companion features a comprehensive bibliography and chronology and concludes with an essay about the success of Latin American novels in translation.

Author : Fabricio Tocco
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793651655

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Latin American Detectives against Power by Fabricio Tocco Pdf

This book examines how Latin American detective stories portray individualism and the state through the figures of the private eye and the police. Fabricio Tocco argues that these portrayals constitute a far more radical critique than the one developed by the Anglo-American canon, culminating in a transnational “poetics of failure” rooted in dissatisfaction with the neoliberal state.