Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature: From Darío to Carpentier
Adam Sharman
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed by a 'postmodern' cultural studies as a condition of the first half of the twentieth century whose major political, philosophical and cultural assumptions the region would do well to leave behind. This book explores a corpus of Spanish-American literary texts from that 'modern' period which dramatize the constitutive dynamics of modernity, in particular the legacy of the French Revolution, the logic of nationalism, the ... Read more
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Modernity in Spanish America has been viewed by a 'postmodern' cultural studies as a condition of the first half of the twentieth century whose major political, philosophical and cultural assumptions the region would do well to leave behind. This book explores a corpus of Spanish-American literary texts from that 'modern' period which dramatize the constitutive dynamics of modernity, in particular the legacy of the French Revolution, the logic of nationalism, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
241
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403974877
SKU
V9781403974877
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About Adam Sharman
Adam Sharman is Lecturer in Hispanic and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published on Spanish-American literature and critical theory, and is the editor of The Poetry and Poetics of César Vallejo: The Fourth Angle of the Circle (1997).
Reviews for Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature: From Darío to Carpentier
"This is an excellent book and an important intervention on debates about literary and cultural studies on Latin America. What emerges is not a mere defense of modern Latin American high culture, so-called, but a nuanced and balanced appreciation of the place of 'high' art in Latin American modernity, which brings out literary Modernism's complex articulation of positive and negative ... Read more