Author: Jorge Carrera Andrade
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873952187
Category : Latin American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Jorge Carrera Andrade
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873952170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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In these five essays the Ecuadorian poet Jorge Carrera Andrade traces the evolution of Spanish-American poetry from the sixteenth century to the present. The author shows how Spanish-American literature grew out of the special conditions produced when the New World environment totally transformed Old World culture and society. Initially, the brilliance of the land and its extraordinary peoples inspired European interest in exotic travel and utopianism; later, Old World literary currents came to have distinctive expression in Spanish-American writing. "Poetry and Society in Spanish-America" follows the historic commitment of the New World poets to social issues, particularly such unique ones as the endeavor to bring the Indians into national life, while "Trends in Spanish-American Poetry" dwells on the more purely aesthetic concerns that have stimulated the poets of the twentieth century. Throughout, Carrera Andrade ties his analysis to specific poems and poets. In the last two essays the author presents a clear perspective of his poetic development from 1930 to 1960. "A Decade of My Poetry" and "Poetry of Reality and Utopia" will especially interest readers of Carrera Andrade's poetry, for not only do they elucidate the personal history and philosophy informing his poems, they also reveal how truly his inspiration springs from that unique Spanish-American world he has so clearly delineated.

Author: Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052010304
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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This book follows several major European literary «echoes» still reverberating since the mysterious emergence of such archetypal figures as Faust, Hamlet, Quixote, and Don Juan alongside lingering ancient and medieval protagonists in the Renaissance. Four centuries of attempts to redefine «modern» identity are traced against the evolution of a new genre of totalizing encyclopaedic literature, the «humoristic» tradition which re-weaves the positive and negative strands of the European, and today also New World, «grand narrative.» The book's method, inspired by Joyce, is to «listen» to recurrent motifs in the cultural flow from Humanism to Postmodernism for clues to an identity transcending the personal.

Author: K. J. A. Wishnia
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754320
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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"It examines works by several of Ecuador's most important writers in terms of the interrelations of history and myth, of realism and magic or marvelous realism, and the problems of using orality and dialogism to actively undermine authoritative discourse."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: George R. McMurray
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: María Antonia Salgado
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of nearly fifty modern Spanish American poets, each tracing the development of the author's canon and the evolution of his or her reputation, and including a bibliography of works.

Author: Lorna V. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Walter Rela
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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This major bibliographic work reflects the significant interest in Latin American literature as a creative force in the world today. Rela who has provided Latin American bibliography with many ground-breaking contributions, has created a single, comprehensive reference work for serious scholarship on Latin American literature with sources through 1986. Among the criteria used to determine which authors and works would be included are originality, critical appraisal, and the interest the work held for professors, researchers, and students. The works are divided into general sections; each section is broken down by country and by genre (poetry, prose fiction, drama, essay) and annotations are provided for many works. The book concludes with an author index.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Latin American
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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Discusses writers of the New World and provides a critial analyses of today's outstanding writers.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1266

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