Spaces of Madness - Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative

Informationen zum Autor 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 Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Early Asylums: Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt Chapter 2: The Asylum in the Works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares Chapter 3: The Schizophrenic Machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum Chapter 4: Luisa Valenzuela's Passage through the Asylum Chapter 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 Fijman Conclusion Works Cited About 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