The burden of modernity : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America / Carlos J. Alonso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alonso, Carlos J., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish American prose literature.

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

Narration (Rhetoric).

Latin America--Intellectual life--19th century.

Latin America.

Latin America--Intellectual life--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author offers an interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America through a re-reading of texts by Sarmiento, Quiroga, Masilla, Vargas Llosa, Garcia Marquez and others.

Contents:

Contents; Chapter 1 Modernity as Ideal and Curse; Chapter 2 Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion; Chapter 3 Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel; Chapter 4 Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles; Chapter 5 Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story; Chapter 6 The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor; Chapter 7 The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America; Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C

DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Bibliography: p211-223. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772333-0

1-280-47116-6

0-19-535335-8

1-60256-262-8

OCLC:

64712021