Format:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 163 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816615160
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0816615179
,
9780816615179
Series Statement:
Theory and history of literature v. 32
Content:
Questing Fictions was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Questing Fictions analyzes twentieth-century Latin American fiction in the light of contemporary literary theory. Djelal Kadir examines key works by several writers-including Jorges Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, and Carlos Fuentes-and demonstrates how these writers are obliged to invent their own reality and how their suc
Note:
Includes bibliography and index
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Overture: Errant Landscape/Untimely Pilgrimage; 2. Borges's Ghost Writer; 3. Erotomania: Mexico's Gothic Family Romance; 4. Baroque, or the Untenable Ground: Quest as Self-Reminiscence; 5. The Quest's Impossible Self-Seeking; Notes; Index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816615162
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Questing Fictions : Latin America's Family Romance
Language:
English
