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  1. The burden of modernity
    the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780195118636; 0195118634
    Subjects: Spanish American prose literature; Spanish American prose literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Literatur; Prosa
    Scope: x, 227 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index

  2. The burden of modernity
    the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195118634; 0195353358; 1280471166; 1423759931; 1602562628; 9780195118636; 9780195353358; 9781280471162; 9781423759935; 9781602562622
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese; Intellectual life; Narration (Rhetoric); Spanish American prose literature; Spaans; Proza; Spanisch; Spanish American prose literature; Spanish American prose literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Literatur; Prosa
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 227 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index

    Chapter 1 Modernity as Ideal and Curse; Chapter 2 Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion; Chapter 3 Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel; Chapter 4 Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles; Chapter 5 Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story; Chapter 6 The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor; Chapter 7 The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America; Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C.

    An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity