03066nam 2200649 450 991078467140332120230421044036.00-19-772333-01-280-47116-60-19-535335-81-60256-262-8(CKB)1000000000363207(EBL)272831(OCoLC)64712021(SSID)ssj0000115961(PQKBManifestationID)11874892(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115961(PQKBWorkID)10026981(PQKB)10681924(Au-PeEL)EBL4701685(CaPaEBR)ebr11273248(OCoLC)960165853(MiAaPQ)EBC4701685(EXLCZ)99100000000036320720161012h19981998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe burden of modernity the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America /Carlos J. AlonsoNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1998.©19981 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-511863-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; CDE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; WAn 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.Spanish American prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSpanish American prose literature20th centuryHistory and criticismNarration (Rhetoric)Latin AmericaIntellectual life19th centuryLatin AmericaIntellectual life20th centurySpanish American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Spanish American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Narration (Rhetoric)868/.08Alonso Carlos J.975619MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784671403321The burden of modernity3827526UNINA