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  • Poetry in Pieces

    César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

    door Michelle Clayton ...
    Serie Boek 4 - FlashPoints
    Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; ... Meer lezen

    33,70 €

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  • Queer Rebels

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  • The Writing of Elena Poniatowska

    Engaging Dialogues

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  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

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    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Meer lezen

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  • Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Borges, Fiction and Art

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    Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, ... Meer lezen

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  • Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

    Serie series Anthem Brazilian Studies
    This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and ... Meer lezen

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  • Collecting from the Margins

    Material Culture in a Latin American Context

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  • Photopoetics at Tlatelolco

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    An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. ... Meer lezen

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