A psychoanalytic exploration through a series of reading of Latin American fiction of Roland Barthes' contention that literary texts have human form and are always an anagram of our erotic body.
A psychoanalytic exploration through a series of reading of Latin American fiction of Roland Barthes' contention that literary texts have human form a...
"Body of Writing" focuses on the traces that an author's "body" leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, Rene Prieto examines narratives that reflect--in differing yet ultimately complementary ways--the imprint of the author's body, thereby disclosing insights about power, aggression, transgression, and eroticism.
Healthy, invalid, lustful, and confined bodies--as portrayed by Julio Cortazar, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Severo Sarduy, Rosario Castellanos, and Tununa Mercado--become evidence...
"Body of Writing" focuses on the traces that an author's "body" leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American wri...
