The twentieth-century Spanish American novel / Raymond Leslie Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Raymond L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

20th century Spanish American novel

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Part I: The Literary Tradition and Modern Science, 1900-1921

One: Novelistic and Cultural Contexts at the Turn of the Century

Two: Rereading Spanish American Classics

Part II: Traditional and Modernist Aesthetics, 1922-1940

Three: Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1920s and 1930s

Four: Rereading Spanish American Criollista Classics

Five: Rereading Novels of Vanguardia

Part III: The Rise of the Modernist Novel, 1941-1961

Six: Novelistic and Cultural Contexts of Latin American Modernism

Seven: Rereading Spanish American Modernist Novels

Part IV: Modern and Cosmopolitan Works, 1962-1967

Eight: Novels and Contexts of the Boom and Beyond

Nine: Rereading Novels of the Boom

Ten: Rereading the Spanish American Novel beyond the Boom

Part V: Toward a Postboom, Feminist, and Postmodern Novel, 1968-1999

Eleven: Novelistic and Cultural Contexts in the 1970s and 1980s

Twelve: Rereading the Spanish American Novel of the 1970s and 1980s

Thirteen: Modern, Postmodern, and Transnational: The Latin American Novel in the 1990s

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.

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ISBN:

0-292-79867-9

OCLC:

614534562