Narrow Search
Last searches

Results for *

Displaying results 1 to 2 of 2.

  1. Caught between the lines
    captives, frontiers, and national identity in Argentine literature and art
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

    "'Caught between the Lines' examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries"--... more

    Access:
    Aggregator (lizenzpflichtig)
    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
    E-Book EBSCO
    No inter-library loan
    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
    E-Book Ebsco
    No inter-library loan
    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
    No inter-library loan
    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
    No inter-library loan

     

    "'Caught between the Lines' examines how the figure of the captive and the notion of borders have been used in Argentine literature and painting to reflect competing notions of national identity from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries"-- The national trope of captivity within Argentine history -- Crossing borders: Mestizaje and frontiers -- Ambivalent histories: an early legend and a first-person account -- Captives in Argentine literature -- Visual representations of captives in Argentine art.

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
  2. Buenos Aires across the arts
    five and one theses on modernity, 1921-1939
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.

    "Kefala looks at the interaction between modernity and modernism in literature, photography, film, and painting during the interwar period. She analyzes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, José Ferreyra, Xul Solar, Roberto Arlt, and Horacio... more

    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    "Kefala looks at the interaction between modernity and modernism in literature, photography, film, and painting during the interwar period. She analyzes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, José Ferreyra, Xul Solar, Roberto Arlt, and Horacio Coppola, with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity. This was a period of profound change and heightened cultural activity in Argentina. By 1920, Buenos Aires was Latin America's largest and most cosmopolitan center due to massive immigration from Europe. This had drastic effects on the city's socioeconomic and cultural topography and raised political, ideological, and aesthetic issues that shaped the modernist landscape. Artists responded to these changes with conflicting depictions of urban space. Kefala understands these conflicts themselves as a cognitive map of modernity's new realities in the city and in understandings of the city"--

     

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file