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Author:

Dove, Patrick, 1967-

Title:

The catastrophe of modernity : tragedy and the nation in Latin American literature / Patrick Dove.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

301 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Borges, Jorge Luis,--1899---Sur.
Rulfo, Juan.--Pedro Páramo.
Vallejo, César,--1892-1938.--Trilce.
Piglia, Ricardo.
Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--Latin America.
Tragic, The, in literature.

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York at Binghamton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-295) and index.

Contents:

The idea of tragedy : form and institution of modernity -- Visages of the other : on a phantasmatic recurrence in Borges' "El Sur" -- Exígele lo nuestro : transition and restitution in Rulfo's Pedro Páramo -- The Catastrophe of modernity : Vallejo's Trilce, between indigenism and the Avant-garde -- Heterotopic memory and the narration of disaster in Piglia.

Series:

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

ISBN:

9780838755617 (alk. paper)
0838755615 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52601126

LCCN:

2003015422

Locations:

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