The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature and history > Mexico.
National characteristics, Mexican, in literature.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Mexican prose literature > History and criticism.
Mexico > Historiography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Education and entropy in Bernal Díaz del Castillo's War to stop time
  • Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters
  • Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision
  • Jose Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure
  • The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail)
  • Guillermo Gómez-Peña : bordering on madness and performing liminality
  • General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.

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