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Pragmatic passions : melodrama and Latin American social narrative / Matthew Bush.
LIBRA PQ7081 .B94 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bush, Matthew, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Ediciones de Iberoamericana ; 74.
- Ediciones de Iberoamericana. Historia y crítica de la literatura ; 74
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gallegos, Rómulo, 1884-1969.
- Vallejo, César Abraham, 1892-1938.
- Arlt, Roberto (Roberto Godofredo Christophersen), 1900-1942.
- Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
- Fuentes, Carlos, 1928-2012.
- Latin American literature--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Melodrama.
- Local Subjects:
- Gallegos, Rómulo, 1884-1969.
- Vallejo, César Abraham, 1892-1938.
- Arlt, Roberto (Roberto Godofredo Christophersen), 1900-1942.
- Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.
- Fuentes, Carlos, 1928-2012.
- Genre:
- Melodrama.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 222 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madrid ; Orlando : Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2014.
- Summary:
- From the era of the wars for independence onward, the emotionally heightened and ethically charged theatrics of melodrama have played a substantial role in the framing of Latin American fictional narrative. Over that same time period, melodramatic reasoning has influenced the critical models through which the countries of Latin America conceive their respective histories and political landscapes. Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative demonstrates how melodrama is deployed as a convincing means of affectively narrating socio-political messages, yet how it also unwittingly undermines the narrative structure of paradigmatic works by Rómulo Gallegos, César Vallejo, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Amado, and Carlos Fuentes. -- From publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Stirring emotion, assessing progress
- Doña Bárbara or the complications of clear-cut melodrama
- Suffering and retribution : the politicized theatrics of El tungsteno
- What more can one man do? : Disillusionment and conformity in El amor brujo
- Romance, intrigue, and more in Gabriela, cravo e canela
- Episodes of passion and remorse : the excesses of La muerte de Artemio Cruz
- And then
- melodrama beyond the boom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9788484898351
- 8484898350
- 9783954873807
- 395487380X
- OCLC:
- 898029263
- Publisher Number:
- 9788484898351
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