The Latin American Short Story at its Limits

The Latin American Short Story at its Limits
Author: Lucy Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351543067

The Latin American short story has often been viewed in terms of its relation to orality, tradition and myth. But this desire to celebrate the difference of Latin American culture unwittingly contributes to its exoticization, failing to do justice to its richness, complexity and contemporaneity. By re-reading and re-viewing the short stories of Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortazar and Augusto Monterroso, Bell reveals the hybridity of this genre. It is at once rooted in traditional narrative and fragmented by modern experience; its residual qualities are revived through emergent forms. Crucially, its oral and mythical characteristics are compounded with the formal traits of modern, emerging media: photography, cinema, telephony, journalism, and cartoon art.

Questions of the Liminal in the Fiction of Julio Cortazar

Questions of the Liminal in the Fiction of Julio Cortazar
Author: Domenic Moran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2017-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351198734

"The great Argentinian writer Julio Cortazar (1914-84) was immersed in one of the most vibrant and revolutionary intellectual scenes of the last century, the Paris of the 1950s and 60s. Yet his often highly cerebral work has never received the close philosophical attention it deserves. Moran's book fills this critical lacuna. Rather than indiscriminately applying 'theory' to Cortazar, it aims to show that his work both engages with and often foreshadows many of the problems which were to become central to so-called poststructuralist philosophy and poetics. This study demonstrates that Cortazar remains enduringly, problematically modern."

Siete Cuentos

Siete Cuentos
Author: Julio Cortazar
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1994-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780719039232

One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las Babas del Diablo (1959), La Isla a Mediodia (1966), Recortes de Prensa and Queremos Tanto a Glenda (1981) and Botella al Mar (1982). Of the seven stories, some are famous examples of his contribution to the genre of 'fantastic' literature, while others demonstrate his social and political concerns. Cortázar can be a challenging and demanding writer. Peter Beardsell's edition, with its comprehensive introduction and notes to the text, selected vocabulary and discussion section suggests that he is also enjoyable and accessible to readers at all levels.

Mothers, Lovers, and Others

Mothers, Lovers, and Others
Author: Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791459553

Provocative reappraisal of the portrayal of women in Julio Cortázar's short stories.

Spaces of Longing and Belonging

Spaces of Longing and Belonging
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004402934

Spaces of Longing and Belonging offers the reader theoretical and interpretative studies of spatiality centered on a variety of literary and cultural contexts. It brings new and complementary insights to bear on creative uses of spatiality in artistic texts and generally into the field of spatiality as a cultural phenomenon, especially, although not exclusively, in terms of literary space. Ranging over questions of aesthetics, politics, sociohistorical concerns, issues of postcoloniality, transculturality, ecology and features of interpersonal spaces, among others, the essays provide a considerable collection of innovative pieces of scholarship on important questions relating to literary spatiality generally, as well as detailed analyses of particular works and authors. The volume includes ground-breaking theoretical investigations of crucial dimensions of spatiality in a context of increased global awareness.

The Semiotic Web 1986

The Semiotic Web 1986
Author: Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 744
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110861313

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This study of of the short fiction by Julio Cortazar - ten collections in all - is considered here as a part of the enormous body of Latin American literature which began to be discovered in this country in the 1960s. By showing the reader Cortazar's relation to other writers in this genre Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Borges, and others, the author provides a platform for critical exploration into Cortazar's work.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar
Author: Terry J. Peavler
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

One of the most influential figures in the Latin American literary boom of this century, this highlights the Argentine writer's superb stories, taking into account other works of fiction, miscellanea, and nonficiton to give a balanced overview of Cortazar's lasting accomplishments.