The burden of modernity : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America /

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 mode...

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Tác giả chính: Alonso, Carlos J.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Tiếng Tây Ban Nha
Được phát hành: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Loạt:OUP E-Books.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=151314
Mục lục:
  • 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.