Author: Arnold ChapmanPublisher: Berkeley, U. of California P
ISBN:
Category : AMERICAN FICTION TRANSLATIONS INTO SPANISH HISTORY AND CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Spanish American Reception of United States Fiction, 1920-1940
Author: Arnold ChapmanPublisher: Berkeley, U. of California P
ISBN:
Category : AMERICAN FICTION TRANSLATIONS INTO SPANISH HISTORY AND CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In Search of the Latin American Faulkner
Author: Tanya T. FayenPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819198938
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In Search of the Latin American Faulkner is an exhaustive exploration of the shifting interaction between Faulkner's works and the literary repertory of Spanish-speaking Latin America that went on for half a century. Fayen's study sketches a previously unexplored history of the evolution of the modern Latin American literary establishment. This work describes the pre-history of contemporary Latin American narrative, with particular attention to the Spanish-speaking Latin American 'boom'-- from the early dominance of peninsular Spanish literary norms to the gradual weakening of these norms and the complete opening up to foreign innovations, when Latin American literature came into its own. Contents: In Search of a Theoretical Model; The Ambiguous Problem of Influence; Polysystem Theory: Performing Descriptive Translation Studies; A Shift of Norms in the Latin American Polysystem; Faulkner's U.S. Critical Reception; Critical Reception of Faulkner in Latin America; The Translations; Conclusion.
William Faulkner
Author: John BassettPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415159333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
William Faulkner (1897-1962). Writings include: Absolom, Absolom!, Intruder in the Dust, As I Lay Dying. Volume covers the period 1924-1957.
Writing the Apocalypse
Author: Lois Parkinson ZamoraPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521362238
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary North and Latin American novel. Zamora explores the history of the myth of apocalypse, from the Bible to medieval and later interpretations, and relates this to the development of American apocalyptic attitudes. She demonstrates that the symbolic tensions inherent in the apocalytic myth have special meaning for postmodern writers. Zamora focuses her examination on the relationship between the temporal ends and the narrative endings in the works of six major novelists: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortazar, John Barth, Walker Percy, and Carlos Fuentes. Distinguished by its unique, cross-cultural perspective, this book addresses the question of the apocalypse as a matter of intellectual and literary history. Zamora's analysis will enlighten both scholars of North and Latin American literature and readers of contemporary fiction.
Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America
Author: Sophia A. McClennenPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557533586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The genesis of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America stems from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions. The editors introduce the volume by first arguing that there still exists, in some quarters, a lingering bias against literature written in Spanish and Portuguese. Secondly, the authors assert that by embracing Latin American literature and culture more enthusiastically, comparative literature would find itself reinvigorated, placed into productive discourse with a host of issues, languages, literatures, and cultures that have too long been paid scant academic attention. Following an introduction by the editors, the volume contains papers by Gene H. Bell-Villada on the question of canon, by Gordon Brotherston and Lúcia de Sá on the First Peoples of the Americas and their literature, by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez on the Latin American novel of the 1920s, by Román de la Campa on Latin American Studies, by Earl E. Fitz on Spanish American and Brazilian literature, by Roberto González Echevarría on Latin American and comparative literature, by Sophia A. McClennen on comparative literature and Latin American Studies, by Alberto Moreiras on Borges, by Julio Ortega on the critical debate about Latin American cultural studies, by Christina Marie Tourino on Cuban Americas in New York City, by Mario J. Valdés on the comparative history of literary cultures in Latin America, and by Lois Parkinson Zamora on comparative literature and globalization. The volume also contains a bibliography of scholarship in comparative Latin American culture and literature and biographical abstracts of the contributors to the volume.
American and British Writers in Mexico, 1556-1973
Author: Drewey Wayne GunnPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292773110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
American and British Writers in Mexico is the study that laid the foundation upon which subsequent examinations of Mexico’s impact upon American and British letters have built. Chosen by the Mexican government to be placed, in translation, in its public libraries, the book was also referenced by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz in an article in the New Yorker, “Reflections—Mexico and the United States.” Drewey Wayne Gunn demonstrates how Mexican experiences had a singular impact upon the development of English writers, beginning with early British explorers who recorded their impressions for Hakluyt’s Voyages, through the American Beats, who sought to escape the strictures of American culture. Among the 140 or so writers considered are Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Langston Hughes, D. H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Katherine Anne Porter, Hart Crane, Malcolm Lowry, John Steinbeck, Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow, William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, Ray Bradbury, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac. Gunn finds that, while certain elements reflecting the Mexican experience—colors, landscape, manners, political atmosphere, a sense of the alien—are common in their writings, the authors reveal less about Mexico than they do about themselves. A Mexican sojourn often marked the beginning, the end, or the turning point in a literary career. The insights that this pioneering study provide into our complex cultural relationship with Mexico, so different from American and British authors’ encounters with Continental cultures, remain vital. The book is essential for anyone interested in understanding the full range of the impact of the expatriate experience on writers.
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican
Author: Helen DelparPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817308113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United States and Mexico from 1920 to 1935.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Updated Edition
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143811298X
Category : Colombian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Presents a collection of eleven critical essays on the works of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Literary History of the United States: History
Author: Robert Ernest SpillerPublisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
Book Description
[1] History.--[2] Bibliography.
Sherwood Anderson's Pan-American Vision
Author: Celia Catalina EsplugasPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630852
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Based on an analysis of Sherwood Anderson's letters, this study explores the novelist's principal inspiration during his final years (1938-1941): his exposure to Latin America. Thematically arranged correspondence traces his positive reception in South America--a place he saw as a source of fresh ideas and publishing opportunities--his desire to promote cultural relations between the two Americas, and his legacy among Spanish-speaking readers. The author discusses the political and economic climates of mid-20th century South American nations, their emerging liberal ideologies and the concerns Latin American readers had regarding societal upheaval, urbanization and the inequities of capitalism--all vividly depicted in Anderson's works.
