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Approaches to teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman / edited by Daniel Balderston and Francine Masiello.
Van Pelt Library PQ7798.26.U4 B4333 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Approaches to teaching world literature ; 97.
- Approaches to teaching world literature ; 97
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puig, Manuel. Beso de la mujer araña.
- Puig, Manuel.
- Puig, Manuel--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 169 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Modern Language Association of America, 2007.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Materials / Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello
- Editions and Translations 3
- The Novel and the Author 3
- Historical and Political Background 4
- Reading the Novel 6
- Readings for Students 7
- Background Readings on Puig 8
- Historical Context: Readings 8
- Audiovisual Materials 9
- A Chronological List of Puig's Novels 9
- Part 2 Approaches
- Overture
- The Puig Effect / Ricardo Piglia 18
- Narrative Structure
- Reading in the Dark: Entangled Settings, Stories, and Secrets in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Lucille Kerr 28
- Narrative Voices in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Rosa Perelmuter 40
- Building a Web: The Construction of Meaning in Kiss of the Spider Woman / Richard Young 54
- Reading and Reception
- The High Stakes Adventure of Reading (in) Kiss of the Spider Woman / Juan Poblete 65
- Breaking Away from the Readership Cult: The Reception History of Kiss of the Spider Woman / Maria Eugenia Mudrovcic 77
- Puig's Poetics of Fusion / Jose Amicola 83
- Politics and the Novel
- Kiss of the Spider Woman and the Demise of the Lettered City / Juan Pablo Dabove 91
- Revolution and Sexuality in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s: "May Love and Equality Reign" / Jose Maristany 101
- Cinema in the Novel
- The Writer as Smuggler / Graciela Speranza 110
- An Impossible Love: Film and Literature in Kiss of the Spider Woman / David Oubina 122
- Performing the Novel
- Kiss of the Spider Woman: The Adaptations / Suzanne Jill Levine 131
- A Poetics of Discomfort: Teaching Puig with Babenco / Idelber Avelar 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-166) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0873528174
- 9780873528177
- 0873528182
- 9780873528184
- OCLC:
- 137331512
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