Author: Leonidas de VediaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Enrique Banchs
Author: Leonidas de VediaSeven Nights
Author: Jorge Luis BorgesPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218382
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
Spanish-American Literature
Author: Enrique Anderson ImbertPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814313886
Category : Latin American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
With a focus both historical and literary, Enrique Anderson-Imbert surveys the literature of Hispanic America. His study is not merely an historical synthesis of names, titles, and dates; it is, rather, a critical analytical appraisal of the verse, prose, and drama written in Spanish in the Americas in the contemporary period.
Humor in Borges
Author: René de CostaPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814328880
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), an Argentine writer of serious avant-garde poetry and prose, often wrote of the humor in the works of contemporaneous authors such as Franz Kafka. In response to this humor, Borges created a comedic tradition all his own. Humor in Borges studies the humor embedded in the fiction of a serious and metaphysical literary figure. Ren? de Costa shows how Borges was concerned with making the embedded humor in his work more apparent without abandoning the essential story line. De Costa examines the ways in which Borges transformed established modes of writing-the chronicle, the book review, the obituary, the detective story-into genre parodies. He looks at Borges's canonical collections, identifying the humor in such simple things as a footnote, a false epigraph, or a postscript. Humor in Borges couples elegant scholarship with a comedic edge and is both accessible and enjoyable to read. Scholars and students of twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature will delight in this fascinating look at laughter in the work of Jorge Luis Borges.
Bartleby & Co
Author: Enrique Vila-MatasPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Tells the story of a hunchback who is a failed writer that has no luck with women. He is a self-described "Bartleby", named after the Herman Melville character; someone who, when asked to reveal information about themselves, will respond that they "would prefer not to."
Argentines of Today
Author: William Belmont ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Seven Voices
Author: Rita GuibertPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101872489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In-depth and personal interviews by Rita Guibert of Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Pablo Neruda in 1971, Miguel Angel Asturias in 1967, Octavio Paz in 1990 and Gabriel García Márquez in 1982.
Argentine Literature
Author: Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Artificial Respiration
Author: Ricardo PigliaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822314141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A novel set in Argentina just after the military coup in 1976.
Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism
Author: John Carlos RowePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195131509
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 739
Book Description
John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.