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Title:

Mario Vargas Llosa / editor Juan E. De Castro.

Publisher:

Salem Pressa division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ;

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Vargas Llosa, Mario,--1936---Criticism and interpretation.
Peruvian fiction--History and criticism.
Spain--In literature.

Other Authors:

Castro, Juan E. De, 1959- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index.

Contents:

Dissonant worlds: Mario Vargas Llosa and the aesthetics of the total novel / Will H. Corral. Biography of Mario Vargas Llosa / Juan E. De Castro -- Authoritarianism, rebellion, and the father figure in the fictions of Vargas Llosa / Carlos Gran©♭s -- Reading Vargas Llosa: the ups, downs, and ups of a literary career / Juan E. De Castro -- Natural and built environments: toward an ecocritical reading of the novels of Mario Vargas Llosa / Raymond Leslie Williams -- Disentangling the knots: Vargas Llosa and Jos©♭ Mar©Ưa Arguedas in La utop©Ưa arcaica / Sara Castro-Klar©♭n -- Charisma and the structures of power: Vargas Llosa's early short stories / Nicholas Birns -- The time of the hero: the moral itinerary / Alonso Cueto -- From Conversation to Feast: Vargas Llosa's bookend novels of dictatorship / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- From parable to pedagogy: Mario Vargas Llosa's war on fanaticism / Jeff Browitt -- The real life of Alejandro Mayta and The storyteller: success at last for Mario Vargas Llosa's professional narrators / Jean O'Bryan-Knight -- Pessimism and detection in Vargas Llosa's Who killed Palomino Molero? / Miguel Rivera-Taupier -- Reflections on the absurd: a comparative read of Death in the Andes and The time of the hero / Haiqing Sun -- Colonialism as a smoke screen: anti-nationalism discourse in Vargas Lloysa's The dream of the Celt / Ignacio L©đpez-Calvo -- Dissonant worlds: Mario Vargas Llosa and the aesthetics of the total novel / Mark D. Anderson -- Mario Vargas Llosa and his discontents / Will H. Corral.

Summary:

Provides an introduction to Mario Vargas Llosa and the critical discussions surrounding his work.

Series:

Critical insights

ISBN:

1619254018
9781619254015

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863193408

Locations:

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

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

CHPB482 -- North English Public Library (North English)