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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “seymour menton”
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  • Latin America's New Historical Novel

    by Seymour Menton ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution

    by Seymour Menton ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei

    Volume One: The Gathering

    by David Tod Roy ...
    Series series Princeton Library of Asian Translations
    In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

    by William Goldbloom Bloch ...
    "The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry

    by Patricia Ismond ...
    This book deals with the Caribbean phase of Walcott's poetry. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante

    Two Islands, Many Worlds

    by Raymond D. Souza ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    A native Cuban who has lived in London since 1966, Guillermo Cabrera Infante is, in every sense, a multilingual and multicultural author. Equally at ease in both Spanish and English, he has distinguished himself with daring and innovative novels, essays, short stories, and film scripts written in both languages. His work has won major literary awards in France, Italy, and Spain, as well as a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America

    Intervening Acts

    by Vicky Unruh ...
    Women have always been the muses who inspire the creativity of men, but how do women become the creators of art themselves? This was the challenge faced by Latin American women who aspired to write in the 1920s and 1930s. Though women's roles were opening up during this time, women writers were not automatically welcomed by the Latin American literary avant-gardes, whose male members viewed women ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

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  • Iracema

    by José de Alencar, Clifford E. Landers ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema reflects the gingerly way that mid ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Caribbean Literary Discourse

    Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean

    by Dr. Barbara Lalla, Ph.D., Dr. Jean D'Costa, Ph.D., Dr. Velma Pollard, Ph.D. ...
    A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writersCaribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices and literary experiments characteristic of the multicultural and multilingual Caribbean. In these societies, the language of the master— ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Searching for Mr. Chin

    Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature

    by Anne-Marie Lee-Loy ...
    What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness” in the West Indies.Reading behind the stereotypical image of the Chinese in the West ... Read more

    $33.49 USD

  • Coming to Our Senses

    Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture

    by Dierdra Reber ...
    Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in social media, affect has displaced reason as the primary catalyst of global culture.Through examples of feeling in the books, film, music, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD