The burden of modernity : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America / / Carlos J. Alonso
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| Autore: |
Alonso Carlos J.
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| Titolo: |
The burden of modernity : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America / / Carlos J. Alonso
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998 |
| ©1998 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 868/.08 |
| Soggetto topico: | Spanish American prose literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Spanish American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Narration (Rhetoric) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Latin America Intellectual life 19th century |
| Latin America Intellectual life 20th century | |
| 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: | 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; C |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | An 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The burden of modernity |
| ISBN: | 1-280-47116-6 |
| 0-19-535335-8 | |
| 1-60256-262-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457969803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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