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UNISA996205077703316 |
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Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to the Latin American novel / / edited by Efraín Kristal [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2005 |
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1-139-81703-5 |
0-511-99971-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Spanish American fiction - History and criticism |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The nineteenth-century Latin American novel / Naomi Lindstrom -- The regional novel and beyond / Brian Gollnick -- The boom of the Latin American novel / John King -- The post-boom novel / Philip Swanson -- The Brazilian novel / Piers Armstrong -- The Caribbean novel / William Luis -- The Andean novel / Ismael Márquez -- The Central American novel / Roy C. Boland Osegueda -- Gender studies / Catherine Davies -- The lesbian and gay novel in Latin America / Daniel Balderston and José Maristany -- Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis / Marta Peixoto -- Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo / Jason Wilson -- The passion according to G.H. by Clarice Lispector / Claire Williams -- One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez / Steven Boldy -- The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende / Stephen Hart -- The war of the end of the world by Mario Vargas Llosa / Michelle Clayton -- The Latin American novel in English translation / Suzanne Jill Levine. |
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The diverse countries of Latin America have produced a lively and ever evolving tradition of novels, many of which are read in translation all over the world. This Companion offers a broad overview of the novel's history and analyses in depth several representative works by, for example, Gabriel García Márquez, Machado de Assis, Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. The essays collected here offer several entryways into the understanding and appreciation of the Latin American novel in Spanish-speaking America and Brazil. The volume conveys a real sense of the heterogeneity of Latin American literature, highlighting regions |
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