Theoretical Fables : The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Literature /

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
Autor principal: Borinsky, Alicia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Fictie.
Spaans.
Roman
Erziehung > Motiv
Spanish American fiction.
Literature > Philosophy.
Argentine fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
literary theory.
Litterature > Philosophie.
Roman argentin > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman hispano-americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Argentine fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Lateinamerika
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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, Jose Donoso, Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Manuel Puig, and Maria Luisa Bombal.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (168 pages).
ISBN:9781512800906

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