Latin in Modern Fiction - 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 in Modern Fiction write by Henryk Hoffmann. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Latin in Modern Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The goal of this book is to prove that Latin is not a dead language by demonstrating how prevalent and strong it still is in modern Western culture. In order to do so, the author, an English philologist with a long experience as a Latin educator, catalogues, explains and interprets Latin quotations and references in a multitude of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary works by—primarily—mainstream authors (from Aldous Huxley to Saul Bellow to John Irving), crime/mystery writers (from Raymond Chandler to Elizabeth George to Dennis Lehane) and frontier/western novelists (from Emerson Hough to Larry McMurtry). The three areas of fiction constituting the main scope of the book indicate the author’s major interest and preference, as well as the subject matter of his extensive research, both prior and current—the former related to his already published books. The writers offering the most impressive contributions to the thesis are featured in the three parts of the main body; those with lesser input are listed in the Appendix. The prospective readers of the book include all Latin students and educators at the secondary and college levels worldwide.
In Search of the Sacred Book
In Search of the Sacred Book - 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 In Search of the Sacred Book write by Aníbal González. This book was released on 2018-05-03. In Search of the Sacred Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.
Latin in Modern Fiction
Latin in Modern Fiction - 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 in Modern Fiction write by Henryk Hoffmann. This book was released on 2021-09-10. Latin in Modern Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Contemporary Latin American Literature
Contemporary Latin American 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 Contemporary Latin American Literature write by Gladys M. Varona-Lacey. This book was released on 2001-08-22. Contemporary Latin American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary Latin American Literature reflects the wealth of great writers of Latin America over the last hundred years, including Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Noble Prize winners Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Gabriel Garcia Márquez. The selections--almost 100 works in their original form--include English definitions for difficult Spanish words.
Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (Routledge Revivals)
Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (Routledge Revivals) - 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 Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (Routledge Revivals) write by Philip Swanson. This book was released on 2015-08-11. Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of Latin American fiction, for such novels dubbed ‘new novels’ were being written in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. In this edited collection, first published in 1990, Philip Swanson charts the development of Latin American fiction throughout the twentieth century. He assesses the impact of the ‘new novel’ on Latin American literature, and follows its growth. Nine key texts are analysed by contributors, including works by the ‘big four’ of the ‘Boom’ – Fuentes, Cortázar, Garcia Márquez and Vargas Llosa. This book will be of interest to critics and teachers of Latin American literature, and will be useful too as supplementary reading for students of Spanish and Hispanic Studies. It will also serve as a helpful introduction to those new to Latin American fiction.
