02562nam 2200625 a 450 991045203970332120200520144314.00-292-79719-2(CKB)1000000000454142(OCoLC)614535369(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245787(SSID)ssj0000266062(PQKBManifestationID)11225160(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266062(PQKBWorkID)10319098(PQKB)10586301(MiAaPQ)EBC3443300(OCoLC)60745525(MdBmJHUP)muse2130(Au-PeEL)EBL3443300(CaPaEBR)ebr10245787(EXLCZ)99100000000045414220040205d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity[electronic resource] /by John A. Ochoa1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20041 online resource (257 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-70573-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.Education and entropy in Bernal Díaz del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- José Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo Gómez-Peña : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.Mexican prose literatureHistory and criticismFailure (Psychology) in literatureNational characteristics, Mexican, in literatureLiterature and historyMexicoMexicoHistoriographyElectronic books.Mexican prose literatureHistory and criticism.Failure (Psychology) in literature.National characteristics, Mexican, in literature.Literature and history860.9/353Ochoa John A(John Andres),1967-1038858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452039703321The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity2460693UNINA