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Mexico's ruins : Juan García Ponce and the writing of modernity / Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández.
Van Pelt Library PQ7298.17.A7 Z86 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodríguez-Hernández, Raúl.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- García Ponce, Juan--Criticism and interpretation.
- García Ponce, Juan.
- Literature and society--Mexico.
- Literature and society.
- Politics and society--Mexico.
- Politics and society.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a Utopian one-way street named "progress."
- Contents:
- Traces of theory, tropes of modernity
- The storyteller's ruins
- Monuments and relics, I
- Monuments and relics, II
- De ánima, de corpore : the ruins of the bourgeois world
- Modernity, contingency, compensation
- A brief return to the ruin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791469433
- 9780791469439
- OCLC:
- 63178950
- Publisher Number:
- 9780791469439
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