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9781438461557 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $90.00
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9780815332565 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: First published in 2003.
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9781138012080 | Routledge, March 19, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: First published in 2003.
Product Description: Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry...read more
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9781137287793 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 22, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry.
Product Description: This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén Darío, Reynolds argues that extra-textual elements—such as temporality, the material formats of the newspaper and book, and editorial influence—animate the modernista movement’s literary ambitions and aesthetic ideology...read more
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9781611484687 | Bucknell Univ Pr, October 18, 2012, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations.
Product Description: This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds. As we see in these essays, the Europeans cultural others (peripheral nations and former colonies) have established an intercultural and intercontinental dialogue among themselves, without feeling the need to resort to the center-metropolis mediation...read more
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9781443837149, titled "Peripheral Transmodernities: South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and "the Orient"" | Cambridge Scholars Pub, April 1, 2012, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: This volume is a collection of essays dealing with the critical dialogue between the cultural production of the Hispanic/Latino world and that of the so-called Orient or the Orient itself, including the Asian and Arab worlds.
Product Description: The Politics of Spanish American "Modernismo" elucidates the professional and literary means through which Spanish American modernistas negotiated a cultural politics of rapprochement with Spain and Europe in order to differentiate their Americanness from that of the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521572491 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $109.99 | About this edition: The Politics of Spanish American "Modernismo" elucidates the professional and literary means through which Spanish American modernistas negotiated a cultural politics of rapprochement with Spain and Europe in order to differentiate their Americanness from that of the United States.
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9780826516770 | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, February 15, 2010, cover price $55.00
Product Description: The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation of a cultural strategy produced as a response to a specific problem of thought that has beset Europe and the colonial world since early modernity...read more
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9780804769549, titled "The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics" | Stanford Univ Pr, December 17, 2009, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex.
Product Description: National Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature: Chile and Argentina examines the traumatic experiences of Chile and Argentina under authoritarian regimes and argues that in order for postdictatorship countries to successfully implement transitions to democracy, they must confront the past...read more
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9781433105555 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 1, 2009, cover price $77.95 | About this edition: National Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature: Chile and Argentina examines the traumatic experiences of Chile and Argentina under authoritarian regimes and argues that in order for postdictatorship countries to successfully implement transitions to democracy, they must confront the past.
Product Description: This study provides insights into the Latin American literary tradition by analyzing the diverse views of eminent and lesser known writers. The author's use of critical theory - psychoanalysis, phenomenology, Bakhtin, Marx. postmodernism...read more
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9780773450165 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 2, 2009, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: This study provides insights into the Latin American literary tradition by analyzing the diverse views of eminent and lesser known writers.
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9781433104404 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 2009, cover price $90.95
Product Description: In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.S. imperialism, one that prefigures many of the concerns about empire, race, and postcolonial subjectivity animating American studies today...read more
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9780822343257, titled "Translating Empire: Josâ Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities" | Duke Univ Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In Translating Empire, Laura Lomas uncovers how late nineteenth-century Latino migrant writers developed a prescient critique of U.
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9780822343424 | Duke Univ Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $94.95
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9780773450837 | Edwin Mellen Pr, September 14, 2008, cover price $119.95
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9781403980786 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2007, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s.
Product Description: Modernismo, a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s. It is widely regarded as the first Spanish-language literary movement that originated in the New World and that became influential in the "Mother Country," Spain...read more
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9781855661455 | Tamesis Books Ltd, August 16, 2007, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Modernismo, a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Product Description: Few cities can rival the historical importance of Rome, and its literary past is no less inspiring. Rome is often associated with the writers that have visited and been inspired by the Eternal City. Literary travelers to Rome will be sure to visit the Coliseum, the Spanish Steps, the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, the Protestant Cemetery, and many other treasures...read more
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9780791093801 | 1 edition (Checkmark Books, January 1, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Few cities can rival the historical importance of Rome, and its literary past is no less inspiring.
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9780773456730 | Edwin Mellen Pr, October 30, 2006, cover price $139.95
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9780813030104 | Univ Pr of Florida, November 24, 2006, cover price $59.95
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9780791461235 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 23, 2004, cover price $50.50
Product Description: This work examines four Latin American writers - Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo, and Ricardo Piglia - in the context of their respective national cultural traditions. The author proposes that a consideration of tragedy affords new ways of understanding the relation between literature and the modern Latin American nation-state...read more
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9780838755617 | Bucknell Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This work examines four Latin American writers - Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Cesar Vallejo, and Ricardo Piglia - in the context of their respective national cultural traditions.
9781611481921 | Bucknell Univ Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The Catastrophe of Modernity examines four very different Latin American writers in the context of their respective national traditions.
Product Description: The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781557533159 | Purdue Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself.
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9780813026831 | Univ Pr of Florida, November 1, 2003, cover price $59.95
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9788484890843 | Iberoamericana, August 27, 2003, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late 19th century Latin American cultural critique, but above all of 20th century Modernist and Post-Modern literary production.
Product Description: These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late 19th century Latin American cultural critique, but above all of 20th centuiry Modernist and Post-Modernist literary production. New Intersections is a hard-hitting argumentative collection of essays which should be considered by all who are interested in the world after the demise of colonial domination and in the midst of the new reality of the paradox of imperial globalization and the world-wide rise of thousands of regionalisms if not nationalisms...read more
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9781558763203 | Markus Wiener Pub, August 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late 19th century Latin American cultural critique, but above all of 20th centuiry Modernist and Post-Modernist literary production.
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