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Asedios a la obra de Ricardo Piglia
Contenido: Una obra experimental y vanguardista - Poética de la narración - Genética textual - Metáforas de la creación literaria - Estrategias de (dis)continuidad discursiva - Historia y memoria - Género y voz enunciativa - El personaje femenino - Modelos y canon.Contenu : Une oeuvre expérimentale et avant-gardiste - Poétique de la narration - Genèse textuelle - Métaphores de la création littéraire - Stratégies de (dis)continuité discursive - Histoire et mémoire - Genre et voix de l'énonciation - Le personnage féminin - Modèles et canon littéraire
Memoire(s) de la ville dans les mondes hispaniques et luso-bresilien
Derives from a congress held at the Univ. of Caen, November, 2003--Vid. back cover.
Competing Models of Linguistic Change
The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language change within a domain-neutral model of a 'generalized analysis of selection', whereas Henning Andersen takes it that cultural phenomena could not possibly be handled, i.e. observed, described, understood, in the same way as natural phenomena. These papers are models of succinct presentation of important theoretical framework. The other papers present and discuss additional models of change, e.g. ...
Ciudades y el fin del siglo XX en América latina
Les articles publiés dans ce volume sont issus du deuxième colloque organisé sous les auspices du Laboratoire d'Etudes Italiennes, Ibériques et Ibéro-américaines (LEIA) de l'Université de Caen, lequel a eu comme objet l'élaboration d'un état des lieux des modalités de représentation de la ville latino-américaine à la fin du XXe siècle. Il s'agit d'une période pendant laquelle la physiognomonie des villes se modifie à la suite de migrations internes ; le paysage se redessine ; de nouvelles formes de vie urbaine surgissent. La littérature est une terre d'élection autant pour la représentation des processus de changement, que pour la transformation imaginaire des espaces. Mai...
The Reptant Eagle
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) was the most prominent novelist in contemporary Mexico and, until his recent death, one of the leading voices in Latin America’s Boom generation. He received the most prestigious awards and prizes in the world, including the Latin Civilization Award (presented by the Presidents of Brazil, Mexico, and France), the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award. During his fecund and accomplished life as a writer, literary theorist, and political analyst, Fuentes turned his attention to the major conflicts of the twentieth century – from the Second World War and the Cuban Revolution, to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the war in Vietnam, and...
Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture
This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina: while, on the one hand, the country’s vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, the urban population of Buenos Aires, on the other, appears to be especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The book considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by a form of literary madness, and that of larger literary figures such as José Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the ‘other side’ of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.
Female Corpses in Crime Fiction
This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction. Beginning with the foundational detective fictions of the nineteenth century, it draws from diverse subgenres to describe a transatlantic tradition of necropornography characterized by lascivious interest in female cadavers, dissection, morgues, femicide, and snuff movies. Hard-boiled and police procedural classics from the U.S. and the U.K. are juxtaposed with texts by established Spanish and Spanish American genre masters and with obscure works that prefigure the contemporary transmedial boom in corpse-centered fictions. The rhetoric and aesthetics of necropornographic crime fiction are related to those of popular crime journalism and forensic-science television dramas. This study argues that crime fiction has long fixated disproportionately on the corpses of beautiful young white women and continues to treat their deaths and autopsies as occasions for male visual pleasure, male subjective self-affirmation and male homosocial bonding.
Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘Chin...
