Textual Confrontations

Alfred J. Mac Adam

ISBN 10: 0226499901 / ISBN 13: 9780226499901

Editore: The University of Chicago Press, US, 1987

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In this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature has gone beyond the context of Hispanic letters to borrow from, exploit, and finally extend the Western tradition. Mac Adam describes the changes that have taken place in Latin American literature since the time of Modernismo (roughly 1880-1920), when Spanish American writers tried to update their literary language by imitating foreign, mostly French, literature. Since then, as he demonstrates, Latin American writing has achieved a pioneering status by means of a different kind of imitation-parody-whereby it gives back to the former centers of Western culture their own writing, now distorted and reshaped into something new.

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• Titolo: Textual Confrontations
• Editore: The University of Chicago Press, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226499901
• ISBN 13: 9780226499901
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Condizione: New
• Dimensioni: 13,34 L x 3,3 A x 20,32 P centimetri 13,34 centimetri di larghezza per 3,3 centimetri di altezza per 20,32 centimetri di profondità
• Peso: 425 grammi

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Riassunto

In this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature has gone beyond the context of Hispanic letters to borrow from, exploit, and finally extend the Western tradition.

Mac Adam describes the changes that have taken place in Latin American literature since the time of Modernismo (roughly 1880-1920), when Spanish American writers tried to update their literary language by imitating foreign, mostly French, literature. Since then, as he demonstrates, Latin American writing has achieved a pioneering status by means of a different kind of imitation—parody—whereby it gives back to the former centers of Western culture their own writing, now distorted and reshaped into something new.

Informazioni sull'autore

Alfred J. Mac Adam is professor of Spanish at Barnard College.