Spaces of madness : insane asylums in Argentine narrative / / Eunice Rojas

• Autore: Rojas Eunice
• Pubblicazione: Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 860.9/982
• Soggetto topico: Argentine literature - History and criticism; Mentally ill in literature; Asylums - Argentina
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Early asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt -- The asylum in the works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares -- The schizophrenic machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum -- Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the asylum -- Juan José Saer's Committed detective -- The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine founding myth -- The poet as patient: the literary life of Jacobo Fijman.
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Spaces of Madness </span><span>examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. The authors studied in </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Spaces of Madness </span><span>include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>
• Titolo autorizzato: Spaces of madness
• ISBN: 1-4985-0791-3; 0-7391-9087-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463401703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II