Isabel Allende / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allende, Isabel--Criticism and interpretation.

Allende, Isabel.

Allende, Isabel. Casa de los espíritus.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 205 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

Her first novel, The House of the Spirits, established Allende in the fine tradition of Latin American fiction writers.

Contents:

"Magic books" and the magic of books / Patricia Hart

Ink, blood, and kisses : La casa de los espíritus and the myth of disunity / E. Thomson Shields, Jr.

"Parenting the text" : female creativity and dialogic relationships in Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus / Doris Meyer

Iconic/metaphoric dress and other nonverbal signifiers in De amor y de sombra / Catherine R. Perricone

Isabel Allende's Eva Luna and the act/art of narrating / Edna Aguirre Rehbein

Binding the wounds of the body politic : nation as family in La casa de los espíritus / Norma Helsper

Escrituras y escritoras : the artist-protagonist of Isabel Allende / Susan de Carvalho

The struggle for space : feminism and freedom / Ronie-Richelle García-Johnson

Mask and mirror : Isabel Allende's mechanism for justice in The house of spirits / Claudia Marie Kovach

Tyrants and trash : sex, class and culture in La casa de los espíritus / Philip Swanson

Eva Luna : writing as history / Lynne Diamond-Nigh

Genre and metarealism in Allende's Paula / Catherine R. Perricone

Choosing Barrabás : dog as text & text as dog in Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus / Carolyn Pinet

The other and the other worldly : the function of magic in Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus / Caroline Bennett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.

ISBN:

0791070395

OCLC:

49991424