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Author:

Kressner, Ilka, 1975- author.

Title:

Sites of disquiet : the non-space in Spanish American short narratives and their cinematic transformations / Ilka Kressner.

Publisher:

Purdue University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xvi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Spanish American literature--Film adaptations.
Personal space in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Sacred space in literature.
Space (Architecture) in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Spotting the non-space -- Into spatial vagueness : Jorge Luis Borges's and Miguel Picazo's Hombre de la esquina Rosada -- The power of staging : spaces of emulation in Jorge Luis Borges's Tema del traidor y del heroe and Bernardo Bertolucci's Strategia del ragno -- Screening the void: Julio Cortazar's cartas de mama and Manuel Antin's and Miguel Picazo's filmic translations -- Echoes in the dark : Pedro Paramo on the page and on the screen -- Toward amor vacui: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's and Ruy Guerra's erendiras -- Epilogue : The non-space revisited.

Series:

Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; volume 58

ISBN:

1557536546 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781557536549 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)839661139

LCCN:

2013016009

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)