Spaces of madness : insane asylums in Argentine narrative / Eunice Rojas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rojas, Eunice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Argentine literature--History and criticism.

Argentine literature.

Mentally ill in literature.

Asylums--Argentina.

Asylums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Spaces of Madness </span><span>examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. The authors studied in </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Spaces of Madness </span><span>include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Contents:

Early asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt

The asylum in the works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares

The schizophrenic machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum

Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the asylum

Juan José Saer's Committed detective

The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine founding myth

The poet as patient: the literary life of Jacobo Fijman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32639-7

1-4985-0791-3

0-7391-9087-3

OCLC:

898769341