Erotic Mysticism : Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernista Prose /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spanish American literature.
Mysticism in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Erotic literature, Spanish American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Mysticisme dans la litterature.
Litterature erotique hispano-americaine > Histoire et critique.
Litterature hispano-americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature hispano-americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Litterature) > Amerique latine.
Erotic literature, Spanish American > History and criticism.
Spanish American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Spanish American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Latin America.
Latin America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : erotic mysticism 1890s-1920s : "the worst moral stigma"
  • The context of non-theistic erotic mysticism : positivist and Catholic discourses in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Latin America
  • Theories of non-theistic mysticism in essayistic prose : Carlos Díaz Duffo (Mexico 1861-1941) and Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (Venezuela 1871-1927)
  • Decadence under cover : resurrecting Resurrección (Colombia) by Jose María Rivas Groot
  • Death and the feminine erotic : La Rosa Muerta (The dead rose; 1914) by Zoila Aurora Cáceres (Peru)
  • A Byzantine manifesto on erotic pluralism : El Evangelio del amor (The gospel of love; 1922) by Enrique Gómez Carrillo
  • Concluding thoughts : subversion, transcendence, and the ongoing quest for blissful unity.

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