Carpentier's Proustian Fiction
Author: Sally Harvey
Publisher: Tamesis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781855660342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Critical study of Cuban novelist and Proust's influence on selected works.
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Carpentier's Baroque Fiction
Author: Steve Wakefield
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781855661073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Carpentier was one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours eyewitness accounts of Alejo Carpentier's travels through Spainbefore and during the Spanish Civil War and the inspiration that he drew from the Baroque architecture he encountered there. The origins of Carpentier's uniquely 'baroque' style are found in his endeavour to create a period ambience in his historical fictions through descriptions of visual arts and architectural settings, and parodies of the literary style of Spanish Golden Age writers. 'Medusa's gaze' is used as a metaphor for the petrifying power of theBaroque as a weapon of European dominance. By wielding the same weapon in an act of postcolonial defiance, Carpentier enabled a reassertion of Latin American culture, and laid the foundations for the 1960s 'Boom' in the Latin American novel. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia
Marcel Proust and Spanish America
Author: Herbert E. Craig
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780838754856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Craig begins by attributing the early introduction of the Recherche to the intimate friendship between Proust and the pianist-composer Reynaldo Halm, who was born in Caracas. He then shows in chapter 1 how literary critics of the principal newspapers and literary magazines of such countries as Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile examined this French text, which we know today as one of the fundamental works of modernism. Shortly thereafter interest in the Recherche spread to Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, and Colombia. Eventually it would be read in all parts of the New World. Over the years Spanish Americans have continued to write about the Recherche and have published several noteworthy books on it, which are included in the comprehensive bibliography which serves as an appendix."--BOOK JACKET.
Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 113596033X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.
Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997-03-26
Total Pages: 1781
ISBN-13: 113531425X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel
Author: Michael Sollars
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 957
ISBN-13: 1438108362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997-03-26
Total Pages: 2060
ISBN-13: 1135314241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book
Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present
Author: Michael David Sollars
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 3388
ISBN-13: 1438140738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Praise for the print edition:"...a useful and engaging reference to the vast world of the novel in world literature."
Alejo Carpentier and the Musical Text
Author: Katia Chornik
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1909662178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Widely known for his novels El reino de este mundo and Los pasos perdidos, the Swiss-born Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier incorporated music in his fiction extensively, for instance in titles, in analogies with musical forms, in scenes depicting performances, recordings and broadcasts, and in characters’ discussions of musical issues. Chornik’s study focuses on Carpentier’s writings from a musicological perspective, bridging intermediality and intertextuality through an examination of music as formative, as form, and as performed. The emphasis lies on the novels Los pasos perdidos, El acoso, Concierto barroco and La consagración de la primavera, and on his unknown essay Los orígenes de la música y la música primitiva, the repository of ideas for Los pasos perdidos, included here for the first time as facsimile and in English translation. Chornik’s study will appeal to scholars and students in literary studies, cultural studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, and to a specifically interdisciplinary readership.
Intercultural Spaces
Author: Aileen Pearson-Evans
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780820495460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This selection of peer-reviewed essays is taken from the Royal Irish Academy Symposium Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity, hosted by Dublin City University in November 2003. It brings together a fascinating range of scholarly interpretations of the 'intercultural space' with rich contributions coming from the fields of sociology, politics, language teaching and learning, translation, drama, literature, and history. Individually each essay draws the reader into its own particular 'intercultural space' shaped by the norms and parameters of the discipline within which it is being described. As a collection, however, the essays link these usually separate spaces together to forge new and exciting interdisciplinary connections. This collection offers readers from many different disciplines a comprehensive array of interpretations and insights into the phenomenon that is the 'intercultural space', and invites them to explore the richness of this concept as it is revealed in Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity.
