UID:
almafu_9960119324902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-89793-6
Series Statement:
Cambridge Iberian and Latin American studies
Content:
This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Victoria Ocampo (its founder and lifelong editor) and Jorge Luis Borges (a regular and influential contributor) feature prominently in the story, while the contributions of other major writers (including Eduardo Mallea, William Faulkner, André Breton, Virginia Woolf, Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz, Waldo Frank, Aldous Huxley and Graham Greene) are discussed. Politically speaking, Sur represented a certain brand of liberalism, a resistance to populism and mass culture, and an attachment to elitist values which offended against the more dominant phases of Argentine thought, from Peronism to the varied forms of nationalism, socialism and Marxism. Dr King examines the journal's roots, its development and its demise, relating it to other journals circulating at the time, and highlighting vital issues debated in its pages, such as Argentine attitudes towards fascism during the Second World War.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The cultural context -- Argentine letters in the nineteenth century: 'gentleman' and 'professional' writers -- Magazines in the cultural life of Buenos Aires: 1900-30 -- Sur: the early years -- Victoria Ocampo -- Literary travellers in Argentina -- Sur: the first issues -- The years of consolidation, 1935-40 -- Introduction -- The intellectual and social context of the 1930s -- The literary context -- The war years -- Sur and the war: an overview -- Foreign contributors -- Latin American contributors -- Argentine writers -- Sur and little magazines, 1940-5 -- Sur in the years of Peronism, 1946-55 -- An overview -- The opening to Europe -- Latin American writers -- Argentine writers -- Sur, 1956-70: the failure of reconstruction -- Argentine cultural development, 1956-70 -- Foreign contributors to the magazine -- Latin American contributors -- Argentine contributors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-12121-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-26849-4
Language:
English
URL:
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