Shipwreck and Deliverance - Politics, Culture and Modernity in the works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vegas Llosa

List of contents

Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 List of Tables
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgments
Chapter 5 Introduction: The Modern Mind
Chapter 6 Conceptualizing Modernity: Four Characteristic Transformations; Weber's Conception of "Rational Action"
Chapter 7 The Problems of Modernity: The Philosophical Problem of Modernity; The Cultural Problem of Modernity; The Political Problem of Modernity
Chapter 8 Modernity in the Context of Human Struggle: José Ortega y Gasset; Competing Responses to the Crisis of Modernity; Ortega's Influence on Spanish Literature
Chapter 9 The Life and Literature of Underdevelopment: Living with Underdevelopment; The Literature of Underdevelopment
Chapter 10 Time and Reality: Time; Reality; Life as the Present Moment
Chapter 11 Solitude and Love: Solitude; Love; Love as Lifestyle
Chapter 12 Power, Politics, and Recovery: Power; Politics; Criticism and Dignity in Life
Chapter 13 Bibliography of Works Cited
Chapter 14 Index

About the author

Todd Oakley Lutes

Product details

• Authors: Todd Oakley Lutes, Lutes Todd Oakley
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2003
• EAN: 9780761824794
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2479-4
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 245 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary studies: general, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Latin-American Spanish