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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784671403321

Autore

Alonso Carlos J.

Titolo

The burden of modernity : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America / / Carlos J. Alonso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

0-19-772333-0

1-280-47116-6

0-19-535335-8

1-60256-262-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

868/.08

Soggetti

Spanish American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Spanish American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Narration (Rhetoric)

Latin America Intellectual life 19th century

Latin America Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 1 Modernity as Ideal and Curse; Chapter 2 Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion; Chapter 3 Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel; Chapter 4 Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles; Chapter 5 Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story; Chapter 6 The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor; Chapter 7 The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America; Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C

DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal



rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity.