Gabriel Garcia Marquez - New Readings

Klappentext This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author! Gabriel Garc a M rquez! who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. Zusammenfassung This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel García Márquez. Its principal objective is to reflect the breadth and variety of critical approaches to literature applied to a single corpus of writing; here, the major novels (including Love in the Times of Cholera, 1986) and a selection of his short fiction are considered. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Bernard McGuirk; 1. Characterisation in the early fiction of Gabriel García Márquez Richard Cardwell; 2. Beware of gift-bearing tales: reading 'Baltazar's Prodigious Afternoon' according to Marcel Mauss Eduardo González; 3. The body as political instrument: communication in No One Writes to the Colonel René Prieto; 4. Magical realism and the theme of incest in One Hundred Years of Solitude Edwin Williamson; 5. Translation and geneaology: One Hundred Years of Solitude Anibal González; 6. The humour of One Hundred Years Solitude Clive Griffin; 7. On 'magical' and social realism in García Márquez Gerald Martin; 8. Aspects of narrative structure in The Incredible and Sad Story of the Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother Mark Millington; 9. Language and power in The Autumn of the Patriarch Jo Labanyi; 10. Writing and ritual in Chronicle of a Death Foretold Bernard McGuirk; 12. A prospective post-script: apropos of Love in the Times of Cholera Robin Fiddian; The solitude of Latin America: Nobel address, 1982, Gabriel García Márquez translated by Richard Cardwell; Select bibliography John Wainwright; Index Richard Cardwell.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Bernard McGuirk, Bernard Cardwell Mcguirk
• Collaboration: McGuirk Bernard (Editeur), Richard Cardwell (Editeur), Bernard McGuirk (Editeur), McGuirk Bernard (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521122825
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12282-5
• Pages: 244
• Thèmes: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am; Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée; Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Spanish, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form