Erotic mysticism : subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose / by Nancy LaGreca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- author.

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 310.

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--Latin America.

Modernism (Literature).

Erotic literature, Spanish American.

Latin America.

Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American literature.

Spanish American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, Spanish American--History and criticism.

Mysticism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

179 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction : erotic mysticism 1890s-1920s : "the worst moral stigma"

The context of non-theistic erotic mysticism : positivist and Catholic discourses in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Latin America

Theories of non-theistic mysticism in essayistic prose : Carlos Díaz Duffo (Mexico 1861-1941) and Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (Venezuela 1871-1927)

Decadence under cover : resurrecting Resurrección (Colombia) by José María Rivas Groot

Death and the feminine erotic : La Rosa Muerta (The dead rose; 1914) by Zoila Aurora Cáceres (Peru)

A Byzantine manifesto on erotic pluralism : El Evangelio del amor (The gospel of love; 1922) by Enrique Gómez Carrillo

Concluding thoughts : subversion, transcendence, and the ongoing quest for blissful unity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.

ISBN:

9781469630779

146963077X

OCLC:

957696098