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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789057403321

Autore

Kressner Ilka <1975->

Titolo

Sites of disquiet : the non-space in Spanish American short narratives and their cinematic transformations / / Ilka Kressner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61249-287-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; ; volume 58

Disciplina

863/.60998

Soggetti

Spanish American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Spanish American literature

Personal space in literature

Space and time in literature

Sacred space in literature

Space (Architecture) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Spotting the non-space -- Into spatial vagueness: Jorge Luis Borges's and Miguel Picazo's Hombre de la esquina Rosada -- The power of staging: spaces of emulation in Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del heroe" and Bernardo Bertolucci's Strategia del ragno -- Screening the void: Julio Cortazar's "cartas de mama" and Manuel Antin's and Miguel Picazo's filmic translations -- Echoes in the dark: Pedro Paramo on the page and on the screen -- Toward amor vacui: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's and Ruy Guerra's erendiras -- Epilogue: The non-space revisited.