Leopoldo Lugones : selected writings /
Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 190...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Español |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Series: | Library of Latin America.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His short stories (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) were early examples of the fantastic in Latin American fiction and influenced Borges, Quiroga, and others. They reflect an interest in the uncanny and inspired contemporary interest in animism and occultism because the protagonists of many the stories were scientists and doctors experimenting in the transm. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 111 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111). |
ISBN: | 9780199721283 0199721289 9780198038795 0198038798 1281347000 9781281347008 9786611347000 6611347003 9780199938889 0199938881 |