The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland
ISBN: 9780822328308 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer s El genero gauchesco describes the emergence of gaucho poetry which uses the voice of the cowboy of the Argentine pampas for political purposes as an urgent encounter of popular and elite tradition, of subaltern and hegemonic discourses. Molly Weigel s translation captures the original's daringly innovative literary flavor, making available for the first time in English a book that opened a new arena in Latin American cultural...
Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer s El g<...
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The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland
ISBN: 9780822328445 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer s El genero gauchesco describes the emergence of gaucho poetry which uses the voice of the cowboy of the Argentine pampas for political purposes as an urgent encounter of popular and elite tradition, of subaltern and hegemonic discourses. Molly Weigel s translation captures the original's daringly innovative literary flavor, making available for the first time in English a book that opened a new arena in Latin American cultural...
Hailed when first published in Spanish in 1988 as one of the best contemporary examples of Latin American critical thought, Josefina Ludmer s El g<...
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115,59 zł |
Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing
ISBN: 9780822332220 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities, creating an alternate philosophical worldsense linking those of African descent across space and time. maintaining that neglected strains in Negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the...
Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of black Caribbean...
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110,34 zł |
The Noé Jitrik Reader: Selected Essays on Latin American Literature
ISBN: 9780822335450 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Argentine scholar NoE Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of Jitrik's work, his sharp insights into the interrelations between history and literature, and his keen awareness of the specificities of Latin American literature and its relationship to European writing....
The Argentine scholar NoE Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarshi...
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120,86 zł |
The Corpus Delicti: A Manual of Argentine Fiction
ISBN: 9780822942283 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An intellectual tour de force from one of today s leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, "The Corpus Delicti" (The Body of Crime) is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the central role of crime in literature, in life, and in the life of the nation. Drawing her examples from canonical texts, popular novels, newspaper serials, and more, Josefina Ludmer captures the wide range of Argentine crime stories and detective fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She offers more than a mere genre study, examining... An intellectual tour de force from one of today s leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, "The Corpus Delicti" (The Body of Crime... |
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Nightmares of the Lettered City : Banditry and Literature in Latin America, 1816-1929
ISBN: 9780822943310 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Nightmares of the Lettered City" presents an original study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, and banditry's pivotal role during the conceptualization and formation of the Latin American nation-state. Juan Pablo Dabove examines writings over a broad time period, from the early nineteenth century to the 1920s, and while "Nightmares of the Lettered City" focuses on four crucial countries (Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela), it is the first book to address the depiction of banditry in Latin America as a whole. The work offers close... "Nightmares of the Lettered City" presents an original study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, an... |
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The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America
ISBN: 9780822959168 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s in novels, travel writing, journalism, and poetry, and presents them in a new light as formulators of modern Western culture and precursors of global culture. Particular focus is placed on the work of Roberto Arlt and Mario de Andrade as exemplars of the movement. Fernando J. Rosenberg provides a theoretical historiography of Latin American literature and the role that modernity and avant-gardism played in it. He finds significant parallels between... The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America examines the canonical Latin American avant-garde texts of the 1920s and 1930s in novels, t... |
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The Will to Heal: Psychological Recovery in the Novels of Latina Writers
ISBN: 9780826328557 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the past three decades, Latin American and Latina women writers have used autobiography, fiction, and a blend of the two genres to address the psychological struggle to heal from both personal and political traumas. Felicia Fahey focuses on six fictional autobiographies as literary representations of psychological recovery: Alina Diacon's "El penltimo viaje/The penultimate journey" (1989), Manuela Fingueret's "Hija del silencio/Daughter of Silence" (2000), Luisa Valenzuela's "La travesa/The Crossing" (2001), Sara Sefchovich's "Demasiado amor/Too Much Love" (1991), Laura Restrepo's "Dulce...
For the past three decades, Latin American and Latina women writers have used autobiography, fiction, and a blend of the two genres to address the psy...
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179,28 zł |
History and Memory in the Two Souths: The Making of Mental Health Policy
ISBN: 9780826513328 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriously into why the attraction of the writings of this southerner has been so powerful. In this bold new study, Deborah N. Cohn addresses this question squarely, from two perspectives.
It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriousl...
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History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction
ISBN: 9780826513373 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriously into why the attraction of the writings of this southerner has been so powerful. In this bold new study, Deborah N. Cohn addresses this question squarely, from two perspectives.
It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriousl...
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253,54 zł |
Temptation of the Word: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars
ISBN: 9780826513441 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1998 Temptation of the Word offers an ambitious and careful reading of the creative process--the origin of themes and the development of literary techniques--that Mario Vargas Llosa has brought to each of his novels, published through 1996. To understand the novelist's intellectual environment, Efrain Kristal analyzes the entire corpus of Vargas Llosa's writings, his literary influences in several languages, his intellectual biography, and his political activism, all in the light of the evolving political turbulence of his times and...
Choice Outstanding Academic Book 1998 Temptation of the Word offers an ambitious and careful reading of the creative process-...
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253,54 zł |
Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity: Beyond the Surface
ISBN: 9780826513458 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity, Van Delden argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes's vision of Mexico and in his role as novelist and critic in putting forth that vision. This paradox hinges on the tension between national identity and modernity. A significant internal conflict emerges in Fuentes's work from his attempt to stake out two different positions for himself, as experimental novelist and as politically engaged and responsible intellectual. Drawing from his fiction, literary essays, and political journalism, Van Delden places these tensions...
In Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity, Van Delden argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes's vision of Mexico and ...
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Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of Twentieth-Century Latin America
ISBN: 9780826513472 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rebecca Biron breaks new ground in this study of masculinity, violence, and the strategic construction of collective political identities in twentieth-century Latin American fiction. By engaging current sociological, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories, Murder and Masculinity analyzes the cliche of proving virility through violence against women. Biron develops her argument through close readings of five works: Jorge Luis Borges's -La intrusa, - Armonia Somer's -El despojo, - Clarice Lispector's A Maca no Escuro, Manuel Puig's The Buenos Aires Affair, and Reinaldo Arenas's...
Rebecca Biron breaks new ground in this study of masculinity, violence, and the strategic construction of collective political identities in twentieth...
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Invisible Work: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought
ISBN: 9780826514073 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have been aware of the number of texts he translated, the importance he attached to this activity, or the extent to which the translated works inform his own stories and poems.
Between the age of ten, when he translated Oscar Wilde, and the end of his life, when he prepared a Spanish version of the Prose Edda, Borges transformed the work of Poe, Kafka, Hesse, Kipling, Melville, Gide, Faulkner, Whitman, Woolf, Chesterton, and many others. In a... It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have be...
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Invisible Work
ISBN: 9780826514080 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have been aware of the number of texts he translated, the importance he attached to this activity, or the extent to which the translated works inform his own stories and poems.
Between the age of ten, when he translated Oscar Wilde, and the end of his life, when he prepared a Spanish version of the Prose Edda, Borges transformed the work of Poe, Kafka, Hesse, Kipling, Melville, Gide, Faulkner, Whitman, Woolf, Chesterton, and many others. In a... It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have be...
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Ordinary Enchantments: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness
ISBN: 9780826514417 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new theory to explain its significance. In the most comprehensive critical treatment of this literary mode to date, Wendy B. Faris discusses a rich array of examples from magical realist novels around the world, including the work not only of Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but also of authors like Salman Rushdie, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, and Ben Okri.
Faris argues that by... Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristi...
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624,87 zł |
Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio
ISBN: 9780826515230 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of -The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?- Kimberly Nance takes up the relationship between ethics and literature. With the 40th anniversary of the testimonio occurring in 2006, there has never been a better time to reconsider its role in achieving social justice.
The advent of the testimonio--loosely, a political autobiography of a Latin American activist who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about change--was met with a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical new... As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of -The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?- Kimberly Nance takes up the r...
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Can Literature Promote Justice?: Trauma Narrative and Social Action in Latin American Testimonio
ISBN: 9780826515247 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of -The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?- Kimberly Nance takes up the relationship between ethics and literature. With the 40th anniversary of the testimonio occurring in 2006, there has never been a better time to reconsider its role in achieving social justice.
The advent of the testimonio--loosely, a political autobiography of a Latin American activist who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about change--was met with a great deal of excitement by scholars who posited it as a radical new... As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of -The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?- Kimberly Nance takes up the r...
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The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
ISBN: 9780872863132 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New World Border is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cultures, and a head-on collision with the real and imagined borders that separate North and South. Hero of a thousand syncretic faces - intercultural interpreter, reverse anthropologist, experimental linguist, and political artist of the first order - Guillermo Gomez-Pena has won international acclaim for his efforts to create a hybrid culture and to articulate a borderless ethos. In this new collection of essays, poems, and performance... The New World Border is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cult... |
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The Tension of Paradox: Jose Donoso's the Obscene Bird of Night as Spiritual Exercises
ISBN: 9780896801691 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pamela Finnegan provides a detailed criticism of a major novel written by one of Chile s leading literary figures. She analyzes the symbolism and the use of language in The Obscene Bird of Night, showing that the novel s world becomes an icon characterized by entropy, parody, and materiality. Her study concludes that all linguistic ordering fictionalizes, that the lack of spirituality within the novel s world is symptomatic of language gone stale, and that blindness to this fact leads to dogma or solipsism, each counter-productive to communication and human endeavor. To revive the linguistic...
Pamela Finnegan provides a detailed criticism of a major novel written by one of Chile s leading literary figures. She analyzes the symbolism and the ...
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