Spanish American literature in the age of machines and other essays / Ángel Rama, translated by José Eduardo González and Timothy R. Robbins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rama, Ángel, author.

Contributor:

González, José Eduardo, translator.

Robbins, Timothy R., 1980- translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Rama, Ángel--Translations into English.

Rama, Ángel.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

Summary:

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Density of Literary History

Translators' Note

1. Mariano Azuela: Ambition and Frustration of the Middle Class (1966)

I. Azuela's Ideological Perspectivism

II. The Middle Class before the Revolution

III. Education, the Instrument of Power

IV. Intellectuals in the Revolution

2. Criticism and Literature (1971)

3. Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines (1972)

4. No More Demons (1972)

I.

II.

III.

5. The Two Latin American Avant-Gardes (1973)

1. Discovery of the Avant-Garde

2. The Two Latin American Avant-Gardes

6. Literary System and Social System in Spanish America (1975)

Critique of Literary Historiography

Literary Totality, Ruptures, and Sequences

Singularity of the Spanish American Social System

Three Discourses: Literary, Linguistic, "Social Imaginary"

Dating, Duration, and Superposition of Literary Sequences

The Literary Sequences in Dependent Society

Time Factor, Reality Factor

7. Literature and Social Class (1976)

Advances in Latin American Literary Criticism

Literatures, Subcultures, Social Classes

The Density of Literature

Bordering Stratifications

8. The Literary System of Gauchesque Poetry (1977)

The Author's Function

The Creation of a Public

The Ideological Framework

Art or Document

The Rural Dialect of the River Plate Region

Venues of Oral Tradition: Song, Narration, and Drama

A Rigid Literary System

9. The Boom in Perspective (1979)

What Was the Boom?

Elusive Definitions

The Role of the Publishing Houses

Catalog of Grievances

Who Are They?

The Boom Dates

Literary Productivity, Professionalization, and Market Laws

10. A Research into Ideology in Poetry (The Diptych Series of Simple Verses) (1980)

1. On the Ideological Framework.

2. The Serial Diptychs

3. Structuring Function of Ideology

4. Objective Construction of Meaning

5. Transposition of Society in Nature

6. The Discourse of Desire

7. The Dilemma in Society

11. Narrative Technification (1981)

The International Impulse: Techniques

A Lengthy One-Sided Dialogue with Europe

The Operative Model

Illusions and Realities of Technification

Lost Illusions

Two Modernizing Avant-Gardes

12. Literature within an Anthropological Framework (1984)

Appendix: Publishing History of the Essays in This Volume

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781438494500

1438494505

OCLC:

1402237804