The Naturalistic Novel of the New World - A Comparative Study of Stephen Crane, Aluisio Azevedo, and Federico Gamboa

Sedycias fills a significant gap in his comparative study of three major works: Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (American), Aluisio Azevedo's O cortico (Brazilian), and Federico Gamboa's Santa (Mexican). Sedycias investigates certain aspects of discontinuity between European naturalistic ideology and literary practices in the New World.

About the author

Joao Sedycias teaches at California State University in Sacramento.

Summary

Sedycias examines novels by Crane ("Maggie: A Girl of the Streets"), Azevedo ("O Cortico") and Gamboa ("Santa") and analyzes character, plot, and cultural and religious attitudes in the authors' attitude towards the "fallen woman", desire, prostitution and religious salvation.

Product details

• Authors: Joao Sedycias, Jooao Sedycias, Sedycias Joao
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.1993
• EAN: 9780819189417
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-8941-7
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Mexico, Brazil, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Portuguese, 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