Julio Cortazar - New Readings

Klappentext A 1998 collection of essays on the Argentine writer Julio Cort zar. Zusammenfassung The articles gathered within this 1998 book address the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar's oeuvre from a variety of critical positions. This is the first critical anthology of one of the most significant writers to appear in fifteen years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; To burn like this without surcease ... Carlos J. Alonso; Part I. Reading Cortázar Today: 1. Between Utopia and Inferno (Julio Cortázar's version) Ana María Amar Sánchez; 2. Comic stripping: Cortázar in the age of mechanical reproduction Jean Franco; 3. Cortázar and postmodernity: new interpretive liabilities Neil Larsen; 4. Cortázar's closet René Prieto; Part II. Cortázar Read Cortázar: 5. Between reading and repetition (apropos of Cortázar's 62: A Model Kit) Lucille Kerr; 6. Cortázar and the idolatry of origins Gustavo Pellón; 7. Supposing Morelli had meant to go to Jaipur Andrew Bush; Part III. Reading Politics: 8. Apocalipsis in Solentiname as heterological production Alberto Moreiras; 9.The man in the car/In the Trees/Behind the Fence: from Cortázar's Blow-up to Oliver Stone's JFK Frederick Luciani; Part IV. The Ethics of Reading: 10. Pursuing a perfect present Doris Sommer; 11. Press clippings and Cortázar's ethics of writing Aníbal González.

Product details

• Authors: ALONSO, Carlos J. Alonso
• Assisted by: Carlos J. Alonso (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521174961
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17496-1
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Latin Ame; Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form