Theoretical fables : the pedagogical dream in contemporary Latin American fiction /

Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent decades,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Borinsky, Alicia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Colección:Penn studies in contemporary American fiction.
Temas:
1900-1999
Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Argentine fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Roman hispano-américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman argentin > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > Philosophie.
literary theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Argentine fiction.
Spanish American fiction.
Erziehung > Motiv
Roman
Spaans.
Fictie.
Lateinamerika
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent decades, seems marked by its self-reflexivity, by its playful relationship to history and the everyday, and by its concerns with the ways in which language works. But is it, Borinsky asks, really a literature whose primary goal is to raise metafictional questions about writing and reading? While the effects of this literature include dismantling the illusions of realism, naturalism, and historicism, the haunting and disturbing energy of its major works lies in their capacity of invoke a region beyond literature through literature.Theoretical Fables progresses by way of close readings of the works of eight canonical--and not quite canonical--Latin American Authors. Borinsky argues that the Latin American "theoretical fable" has its origins in the work of the early twentieth-century Argentinean writer Macedonio Fernández. In this light she studies the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Manuel Puig, and Maria Luisa Bombal.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 145 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index.
ISBN:0585116873
9780585116877
9781512800906
1512800902

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