The Burden of Modernity : the Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America.

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An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of mode...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alonso, Carlos J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Temas:
1800-1999
Spanish American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Spanish American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Prose hispano-américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Prose hispano-américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Narration.
Intellectual life
Spanish American prose literature
Latin America > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Latin America > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Amérique latine > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Amérique latine > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Latin America
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Modernity as Ideal and Curse; Chapter 2 Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion; Chapter 3 Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel; Chapter 4 Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles; Chapter 5 Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story; Chapter 6 The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor; Chapter 7 The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America; Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C.
  • DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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