Interpretaciones : experimental criticism and the metrics of Latin American literature / Rudyard J. Alcocer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alcocer, Rudyard J., author.

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 325.

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; number 325

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Literature and science.

Literature--History and criticism--Research.

Literature.

Literature--Research.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 23 cm

Distribution:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Department of Romance Studies, 2023.

Summary:

"Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers' reactions to short texts during crucial moments of the reading experience. These readers are students at universities in the US and several Spanish-speaking countries. Far from reducing the reading experience to a series of numbers, the data-driven approaches in the study instead underline the startling complexity and elusiveness of seemingly basic literary processes and concepts, including those pertaining to authorship, titles, conclusions, and so on. Simultaneously, Interpretaciones suggests alternative methodologies for gaining new and unexpected knowledge about literary texts themselves, whether from Latin America or elsewhere. Interpretaciones is an ambitious, interdisciplinary project geared toward those interested in literary theory, Latin American and Caribbean literature, and the nexus between literature and science"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Playing with the title, or why we admire things we dislike

In search of an author: or why the famous should run for office and write poetry

This chapter makes an invaluable contribution to the discipline: on reviews

Traduttore, traditore? Reader attitudes toward translations

Based on a true story? Luisa Valenzuela's "Los mejor calzados"

Warning: this chapter may bite: on literary conclusions

Hidden rings, or the dance between the general and the specific

Study survey instruments

Statistical analyses of data through SPSS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Alcocer, Rudyard J. Interpretaciones.

ISBN:

9781469676661

1469676664

OCLC:

1366103891