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Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture
The subject matter is topical: madness has universal and enduring appeal. The positive aspects of the irrational, particularly its potential for cultural renewal, are given more prominence than has been the case in the past. The coverage is wide-ranging: new critical angles enrich our understanding of major writers while the appeal of lesser-known figures is highlighted, often by means of a comparative perspective.
A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garc a M rquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.
Structures of Desire
Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.
Contemporary Spanish-American Fiction
A bibliography and discussion of novels and short stories.
A New History of Spanish American Fiction: Social concern, universalism, and the new novel
These volumes present a multitude of Spanish-American literature's greatest works. From the earliest extant writings through the literature of the 1980s, the author draws on the latest scholarship and she presents each literary genre fully in its own section, making it easy for the reader to follow the development of poetry, the drama, the novel, other prose fiction, and nonfiction prose. A full index easily enables the reader to find all references to any individual author or book. Another noteworthy feature of this two volume set is the comprehensive attention the author accords nonfiction prose, including, for example, essays, philosophy, literary criticism, politics, and historiography.
Structures of Power
Explores the many faces of power as revealed in twentieth-century Spanish-American fiction.
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction
Spanish American fiction became a world phenomenon in the twentieth century through multilanguage translations of such novels as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, Octavio Paz's Labyrinth of Solitude, and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. Yet these "blockbusters" are only a tiny fraction of the total, rich outpouring of Spanish-language literature from Latin America. In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil). Discussing movements and trends, she places the famous masterworks in historical perspective and highligh...
An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature
A revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's "Introduction to Spanish-American Literature", first published in 1969.
