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Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
Donald L. Shaw
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A comprehensive survey of Spanish American fiction as it has eveolved through successive phases. With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature.This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, ... Read more
A comprehensive survey of Spanish American fiction as it has eveolved through successive phases. With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature.This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781855662179
SKU
V9781855662179
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Reviews for Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
A comprehensive and erudite survey of the field... In the two chapters devoted to [the Boom] we are treated to excellent, insightful readings... A valuable work of reference. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [Anne McLean] An ambitious book of exceptional significance.... Delivers more than its title may promise. On the one hand, true to its encyclopaedic form, the Companion meets the challenge ... Read more