TY - GEN T1 - Theoretical fables : the pedagogical dream in contemporary Latin American fiction T2 - Penn studies in contemporary American fiction. A1 - Borinsky, Alicia LA - English PP - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press YR - 1993 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44960720 AB - Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent decades, seems marked by its self-reflexivity, by its playful relationship to history and the everyday, and by its concerns with the ways in which language works. But is it, Borinsky asks, really a literature whose primary goal is to raise metafictional questions about writing and reading? While the effects of this literature include dismantling the illusions of realism, naturalism, and historicism, the haunting and disturbing energy of its major works lies in their capacity of invoke a region beyond literature through literature.Theoretical Fables progresses by way of close readings of the works of eight canonical--and not quite canonical--Latin American Authors. Borinsky argues that the Latin American "theoretical fable" has its origins in the work of the early twentieth-century Argentinean writer Macedonio Fernández. In this light she studies the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Manuel Puig, and Maria Luisa Bombal. OP - 145 CN - PQ7552.N7 B67 1993eb SN - 0585116873 SN - 9780585116877 SN - 9781512800906 SN - 1512800902 SN - 0812232348 SN - 9780812232349 KW - Spanish American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Argentine fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Literature : Philosophy. KW - Roman hispano-américain : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Roman argentin : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature : Philosophie. KW - literary theory. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : Hispanic American. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Caribbean & Latin American. KW - Argentine fiction KW - Literature : Philosophy KW - Spanish American fiction KW - Erziehung : Motiv KW - Lateinamerika KW - Roman KW - Spaans. KW - Fictie. KW - 1900-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -