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Author:

LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- author.

Title:

Erotic mysticism : subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose / by Nancy LaGreca.

Publisher:

Department of Romance StudiesThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

179 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Modernism (Literature)--Latin America.
Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Spanish American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Erotic literature, Spanish American--History and criticism.
Mysticism in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : erotic mysticism 1890s-1920s : "the worst moral stigma" -- The context of non-theistic erotic mysticism : positivist and Catholic discourses in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Latin America -- Theories of non-theistic mysticism in essayistic prose : Carlos Diaz Duffo (Mexico 1861-1941) and Manuel Diaz Rodriguez (Venezuela 1871-1927) -- Decadence under cover : resurrecting Resurreccion (Colombia) by Jose Maria Rivas Groot -- Death and the feminine erotic : La Rosa Muerta (The dead rose; 1914) by Zoila Aurora Caceres (Peru) -- A Byzantine manifesto on erotic pluralism : El Evangelio del amor (The gospel of love; 1922) by Enrique Gomez Carrillo -- Concluding thoughts : subversion, transcendence, and the ongoing quest for blissful unity.

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 310

ISBN:

146963077X
9781469630779

OCLC:

(OCoLC)957696098

LCCN:

2016034739

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)