| Description |
xi, 478 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The Critical cosmos series |
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Critical cosmos series.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 461-467. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Borges's new prose / Carter Wheelock -- Borges's "Immortal" : the ritual experience of literature / Sophia S. Morgan -- "She was unable not to think" : Borges's "Emma Zunz" and the female subject / Bella Brodzki -- Myth as time and word / Ariel Dorfman -- On Reasons of state / Roberto González Echevarría -- A return to Africa with a Carpentier tale / José Piedra -- The picaroon in power : Alejo Carpentier's El recurso del método / Julie Jones -- The destruction of realism in the short prose fiction of João Guimarães Rosa / Allan Englekirk -- Anguish of the ordinary / George Levine -- María Luisa Bombal's poetic novels of female estrangement / Phyllis Rodríguez-Peralta -- An approach to Lezama Lima / Julio Cortázar. |
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A Cuban Proust / Severo Sarduy -- Pursuers / Saúl Sosnowski -- Rayuela : chapter 55 as take-(away) / Barbara L. Hussey -- Movement and stasis, film and photo : temporal structures in the recent fiction of Julio Cortázar / Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Three versions of Pedro Páramo / Paul B. Dixon -- Authority and identity in Rulfo's El llano en llamas / Steven Boldy -- Form and content in Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir / Harry Enrique Rosser -- Writing-transvestism / Severo Sarduy -- José Donoso : endgame / Alfred J. MacAdam -- Reading Clarice Lispector's "Sunday before going to sleep" / Hélène Cixous -- Family ties : female development / Marta Peixoto -- Voices of patriarchy : Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude / Susanne Kappeler. |
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The autumn of the signifier : the deconstructionist moment of García Márquez / Patricia Tobin -- The heir must die : One hundred years of solitude as a Gothic novel / Claudette Kemper Columbus -- Terra nostra : coming to grips with history / Jaime Alazraki -- "Without sin, and with pleasure" : the erotic dimensions of Fuentes's fiction / Wendy B. Faris -- A secret idiom : the grammar and role of language in Tres tristes tigres / Stephanie Merrim -- Manuel Puig at the movies / Frances Wyers (Weber) -- The transformation of privilege in the work of Elena Poniatowska / Bell Gale Chevigny -- Rhetorics of the plot / Ronald Christ -- Beyond magic realism / Roger Kaplan -- Mass media images of the Puertorriqueña in La guaracha del Macho Camacho / Stacey Schlau -- Plain song : Sarduy's Cobra / Roberto González Echevarría -- Notes on the fiction of Nélida Piñón / Giovanni Pontiero. |
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Voices in the silence / Patricia Tobin -- The dazzling world of Friar Servando / Julio Ortega --Woman's space, woman's text : a new departure in Ines Malinow's Entrada libre / Doris Meyer. |
| Subject |
Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Local Subject |
Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism. |
| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
1555460968 alkaline paper $49.95 |
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