The ironic apocalypse in the novels of Leopoldo Marechal /
Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Ma...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA :
Tamesis
2000.
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| Col·lecció: | Colección Támesis. Monografías ;
183. |
| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81p61 |
| Sumari: | Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's 'metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (viii, 170 pages). |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585443629 9780585443621 9781846150081 1846150086 1855660709 |