The Corpus Delicti - A Manual of Argentine Fictions

An intellectual tour de force from one of today's leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti [The Body of Crime] is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the role of crime in life.

About the author

Josefina Ludmer, professor of Latin American literature and culture at Yale University, is the editor of Las culturas de fin de siglo en America Latina and the author of several books, including Cien anos de soledad: Una interpretacion and The Gaucho Genre: A Treatise on the Motherland.

Summary

An intellectual tour de force from one of today's leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti [The Body of Crime] is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the role of crime in life.

Product details

• Authors: Josefina Ludmer, Josefina Ludmer
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2004
• EAN: 9780822961956
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6195-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Pitt Illuminations; Pitt Illuminations; Illuminations
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies