Spaces of Madness - Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative

Informationen zum Autor By Eunice Rojas Klappentext Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Early Asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto ArltChapter 2: The Asylum in the Works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy CasaresChapter 3: The Schizophrenic Machine in Ricardo Piglia's AsylumChapter 4: Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the AsylumChapter 5: Juan José Saer's Committed Detective Chapter 6: The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine Founding Myth Chapter 7: The Poet as Patient: The Literary Life of Jacobo FijmanConclusionWorks CitedAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Eunice Rojas, Rojas Eunice
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2014
• EAN: 9780739190869
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9086-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Literary studies: general, History of the Americas, Central America, Mexico and Central America