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Pariah in the desert : the heroic and the monstrous in Horacio Quiroga /
The first book in English on canonical Spanish American writer Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1936), Pariah in the Desert examines his works through the theoretical lens of the heroic and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This focus on reveals the ethical coherence galvanizing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewisburg, PA : Lanham, Maryland :
Bucknell University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefied Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The heroic paradigm: tradition and innovation of the pariah-hero
- Strangers on the land: immigrants, neocolonialism, and monstrous heroism
- The Hollywood invasion: silent film as a portal to the heroic living dead
- Men and women: bourgeois convention, the female abject, and heroic gender conflict
- Inventive nature: science, medicine, technology, and the monstrous post-Darwin hero
- Concluding with pedagogy: father and teacher as abject hero.