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The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

Author : Raymond Leslie Williams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Textual Exposures

Author : Dan Russek
Publisher : Latin American and Caribbean S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1552387836

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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.

The Spanish American Novel

Author : John S. Brushwood
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1975-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292739659

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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.

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780374533182

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The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by Ilan Stavans Pdf

Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction

Author : Naomi Lindstrom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.

Twentieth-century Spanish American Literature Since 1960

Author : David William Foster,Daniel Altamiranda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490839905

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Twentieth-century Spanish American Literature Since 1960 by David William Foster,Daniel Altamiranda Pdf

Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature

Author : B. Willis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137268808

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Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature by B. Willis Pdf

Featuring canonical Spanish American and Brazilian texts of the 1920s and 30s, Corporeality in Early Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature is an innovative analysis of the body as site of inscription for avant-garde objectives such as originality, subjectivity, and subversion.

In Search of the Sacred Book

Author : Aníbal Gonzalez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

Twentieth-century Spanish American literature to 1960

Author : David William Foster,Daniel Altamiranda
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815326777

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Twentieth-century Spanish American literature to 1960 by David William Foster,Daniel Altamiranda Pdf

Meets the needs of today's teachers and students Gathered to meet the upsurge of interest in Latin America, this collection features major critical articles dealing with the authors and texts customarily taught in colleges and universities in the United States. The articles are in English and Spanish, with a predominance of the former. Surveys a dynamic and exciting area of research Four Latin American writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature: Guatemalan Miquel Angel Asturias, Chilean Gabriela Mistral, Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Chilean Pablo Neruda. Also internationally recognized are the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, the Mexican Carlos Fuentes, and the Chilean Isabel Allende, to name only a few. Moreover, the sociopolitical circumstances of the past four decades of Latin American history, and the growing importance of the region have resulted in the creation of Latin American studies programs in numerous American universities. All of this literary activity hasinspired innumerable dissertations, theses, books, and journal articles. Explores contemporary Latin Americanissues and concerns In the face of such an enormous proliferation of commentary, students of Latin America and its literature need a body of basic texts that will provide them an orientation in the various research areas and new schools of thought that have emerged in the field. Particularly important are the essays and articles that have appeared in periodicals and other sources that Anglo American readers often find difficult to obtain. Individual volumes available: Vol. 1 Theoretical Debates in Spanish American Literature 448 pages, 0-8153-2676-9 Vol. 2 Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period 456 pages, 0-8153-2678-5 Vol. 3 From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin American Literture 352 pages, 0-8153-2680-7 Vol. 5 Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature Since 1960 416 pages, 0-8153-2681-5

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature

Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría,Enrique Pupo-Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521410355

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The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría,Enrique Pupo-Walker Pdf

The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 3 is devoted partly to the history of Brazilian literature, from the earliest writing through the colonial period and the Portuguese-language traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and partly also to an extensive bibliographical section in which annotated reading lists relating to the chapters in all three volumes of The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature are presented. These bibliographies are a unique feature of the History, further enhancing its immense value as a reference work.

Structures of Power

Author : Terry J. Peavler,Peter Standish
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791428397

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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.

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003

Author : Daniel Balderston,Mike Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 45,6 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.

The Spanish American Regional Novel

Author : Carlos J. Alonso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521372100

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The Spanish American Regional Novel by Carlos J. Alonso Pdf

This study provides a radical re-examination of the regional novel, which played a central part in the development of Latin American fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Professor Alonso presents his argument through challenging readings of three works: Rivera's La Voragine; Gallegos's Dona Barbara and Guiraldes's Don Segundo.

Twentieth-Century Spain

Author : Julián Casanova,Carlos Gil Andrés
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107016965

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Twentieth-Century Spain by Julián Casanova,Carlos Gil Andrés Pdf

A much-needed new overview of twentieth-century Spanish social and political history which sets developments within a European context.