Author: Patricia Nisbet Klingenberg
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"In order to address these questions and to better understand Ocampo's work, the analysis sustains an extended dialogue between her short fiction and current Euro-American feminist theory. While the analysis is intended primarily for scholars interested in Latin American authors, every effort has been made to facilitate a reading by the non-specialist."--BOOK JACKET.
Fantasies of the Feminine
Author: Patricia Nisbet Klingenberg
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"In order to address these questions and to better understand Ocampo's work, the analysis sustains an extended dialogue between her short fiction and current Euro-American feminist theory. While the analysis is intended primarily for scholars interested in Latin American authors, every effort has been made to facilitate a reading by the non-specialist."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"In order to address these questions and to better understand Ocampo's work, the analysis sustains an extended dialogue between her short fiction and current Euro-American feminist theory. While the analysis is intended primarily for scholars interested in Latin American authors, every effort has been made to facilitate a reading by the non-specialist."--BOOK JACKET.
Essays on Argentine Narrators
Author: Thomas C. Meehan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788427274082
Category : Argentine fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788427274082
Category : Argentine fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Optic Nerve
Author: Maria Gainza
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world–class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." ―The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book of the Year and Editors' Choice The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo’s bodies. The mystery of Rothko’s refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator’s husband receives chemotherapy. Alfred de Dreux visits Géricault’s workshop; Gustave Courbet’s devilish seascapes incite viewers “to have sex, or to eat an apple”; Picasso organizes a cruel banquet in Rousseau’s honor . . . All of these fascinating episodes in art history interact with the narrator’s life in Buenos Aires―her family and work; her loves and losses; her infatuations and disappointments. The effect is of a character refracted by environment, composed by the canvases she studies. Seductive and capricious, Optic Nerve marks the English–language debut of a major Argentinian writer. It is a book that captures, like no other, the mysterious connections between a work of art and the person who perceives it.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
"In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world–class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." ―The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book of the Year and Editors' Choice The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo’s bodies. The mystery of Rothko’s refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator’s husband receives chemotherapy. Alfred de Dreux visits Géricault’s workshop; Gustave Courbet’s devilish seascapes incite viewers “to have sex, or to eat an apple”; Picasso organizes a cruel banquet in Rousseau’s honor . . . All of these fascinating episodes in art history interact with the narrator’s life in Buenos Aires―her family and work; her loves and losses; her infatuations and disappointments. The effect is of a character refracted by environment, composed by the canvases she studies. Seductive and capricious, Optic Nerve marks the English–language debut of a major Argentinian writer. It is a book that captures, like no other, the mysterious connections between a work of art and the person who perceives it.
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811218147
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811218147
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.
Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik
Author: Fiona Joy Mackintosh
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855660953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age, whereas Pizarnik's much-discussed poetic crisis of exile from language itself parallels her deep sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855660953
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In the final analysis, Ocampo's works achieve equilibrium between childhood and age, whereas Pizarnik's much-discussed poetic crisis of exile from language itself parallels her deep sense of anxiety at being exiled from the world of childhood."--BOOK JACKET.
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826213945
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780826213945
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Author: Karl Posso
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume reconsiders the work and cultural import of Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), who is best known for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325386
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume reconsiders the work and cultural import of Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), who is best known for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges.
New Readings of Silvina Ocampo
Author: Patricia Nisbet Klingenberg
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1855663082
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Unlike other books, these essays by leading scholars address Ocampo's entire body of work: short stories, poetry, essays, and translations.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1855663082
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Unlike other books, these essays by leading scholars address Ocampo's entire body of work: short stories, poetry, essays, and translations.
Postcolonial literature and the biblical call for justice
Author: Susan V. Gallagher
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034596
Category : Christianity and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034596
Category : Christianity and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
On Argentina
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0143105736
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did for Dublin. In colorful pieces on the tango and the gaucho, on the card game truco, and on the criollos (immigrants from Spain) and compadritos (street-corner thugs), we gain insight not only into unique aspects of Argentine culture but also into the intellect and values of one of Latin America’s most influential writers. Featuring material available in English for the first time, this unprecedented collection is an invaluable literary and travel companion for devotees of both Borges and Argentina.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0143105736
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in essays, poems, and stories through which he sought to bring Argentina forward on the world stage, and to do for Buenos Aires what James Joyce did for Dublin. In colorful pieces on the tango and the gaucho, on the card game truco, and on the criollos (immigrants from Spain) and compadritos (street-corner thugs), we gain insight not only into unique aspects of Argentine culture but also into the intellect and values of one of Latin America’s most influential writers. Featuring material available in English for the first time, this unprecedented collection is an invaluable literary and travel companion for devotees of both Borges and Argentina.