Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America write by Patricia García. This book was released on 2019. Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This critical anthology renders visible the twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American traditions of the female fantastic, which presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. Not sufficiently known to readers, the five key short stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Amparo Dávila, Rosario Ferré, Cristina Fernández Cubas, and Ana María Shua collected in the book cover a range of cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Argentina. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language. Corresponding analyses provide social contexts and feminist interpretations of such popular fantastic tropes as the revenant, the monster, the doll, the double, the haunted house, and the werewolf.
Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America
Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America write by Patricia Garcia. This book was released on 2019-08-15. Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers’ works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture
Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture write by Lloyd Hughes Davies. This book was released on 2020-06-01. Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of ‘madness’ and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina: while, on the one hand, the country’s vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, the urban population of Buenos Aires, on the other, appears to be especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The book considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by a form of literary madness, and that of larger literary figures such as José Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the ‘other side’ of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.
Latin America and Existentialism
Latin America and Existentialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latin America and Existentialism write by Edwin Murillo. This book was released on 2023-06-15. Latin America and Existentialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. This study takes a Pan-American approach to move the critical focus away from the River Plate, a region that has received some critical attention. In doing so, it focuses on existentially-neglected writers such as Brazil’s Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, José Asunción Silva from Colombia, Cuba’s Enrique Labrador Ruiz, and the Chilean María Luisa Bombal. Underappreciated Latin American philosophical voices and existentialism’s canonical perspectives allow the author to discuss the many problems concerning the experiencing ‘I’ of these authors, and to consider such existential themes as ethical vacuity, forlornness, the crisis of insufficiency, the conundrum of choice, and the enigma of authentic being. The concentration on Latin America’s existentially-hued interest in the human condition is an invitation to the reader to reconsider the peripheral status in the existentialism canon.
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature write by Patricia García. This book was released on 2022-01-17. The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. “Architectures”, “Encounters” and “Rhythms” make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of “urban fantastic” within and across the European traditions studied here.
