Latin American Mystery Writers

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061548
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Latin American Mystery Writers by : Darrell B. Lockhart

Download or read book Latin American Mystery Writers written by Darrell B. Lockhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America has a rich literary tradition that is receiving growing amounts of attention. The body of Latin American mystery writing is especially vast and diverse. Because it is part of Latin American popular culture, it also reflects many of the social and cultural concerns of that region. This reference provides an overview of mystery fiction of Latin America. While many of the authors profiled have received critical attention, others have been relatively neglected. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 54 writers, most of whom are from Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba. Every effort has been made to include balanced coverage of the few female mystery writers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a critical discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.

Borges and the Literary Marketplace

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300251416
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Borges and the Literary Marketplace by : Nora C. Benedict

Download or read book Borges and the Literary Marketplace written by Nora C. Benedict and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges's efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America "Nora Benedict's illuminating book is an essential contribution to the understanding of Borges' relationship to the written word. The portrait of Borges as writer and reader is now made complete with Benedict's exploration of Borges as editor."--Alberto Manguel, director, Center for Research into the History of Reading Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) stands out as one of the most widely regarded and inventive authors in world literature. Yet the details of his employment history throughout the early part of the twentieth century, which foreground his efforts to develop a worldly reading public, have received scant critical attention. From librarian and cataloguer to editor and publisher, this writer emerges as entrenched in the physical minutiae and social implications of the international book world. Drawing on years of archival research coupled with bibliographical analysis, Nora C. Benedict explains how Borges's more general involvement in the publishing industry influenced not only his formation as a writer, but also global book markets and reading practices in world literature. In this way she tells the story of Borges's profound efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America through his various jobs in the publishing industry.

Anthologizing Poe

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611462592
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Anthologizing Poe by : Emron Esplin

Download or read book Anthologizing Poe written by Emron Esplin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to his compellingly tragic biography. Rather, his continued prominence as a writer owes much to the ways that Poe has been interpreted, portrayed, and packaged by an extensive group of mediators ranging from anthologizers, editors, translators, and fellow writers to literary critics, filmmakers, musicians, and illustrators. In this volume, the work of presenting Poe’s texts for public consumption becomes a fascinating object of study in its own right, one that highlights the powerful and often overlooked influence of those who have edited, anthologized, translated, and adapted the author’s writing over the past 170 years.

Invisible Work

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Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826514080
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Invisible Work by : Efraín Kristal

Download or read book Invisible Work written by Efraín Kristal and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that Jorge Luis Borges was a translator, but this has been considered a curious minor aspect of his literary achievement. Few have been aware of the number of texts he translated, the importance he attached to this activity, or the extent to which the translated works inform his own stories and poems. Between the age of ten, when he translated Oscar Wilde, and the end of his life, when he prepared a Spanish version of the Prose Edda , Borges transformed the work of Poe, Kafka, Hesse, Kipling, Melville, Gide, Faulkner, Whitman, Woolf, Chesterton, and many others. In a multitude of essays, lectures, and interviews Borges analyzed the versions of others and developed an engaging view about translation. He held that a translation can improve an original, that contradictory renderings of the same work can be equally valid, and that an original can be unfaithful to a translation. Borges's bold habits as translator and his views on translation had a decisive impact on his creative process. Translation is also a recurrent motif in Borges's stories. In "The Immortal," for example, a character who has lived for many centuries regains knowledge of poems he had authored, and almost forgotten, by way of modern translations. Many of Borges's fictions include actual or imagined translations, and some of his most important characters are translators. In "Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote," Borges's character is a respected Symbolist poet, but also a translator, and the narrator insists that Menard's masterpiece-his "invisible work"-adds unsuspected layers of meaning to Cervantes's Don Quixote. George Steiner cites this short story as "the most acute, most concentrated commentary anyone has offered on the business of translation." In an age where many discussions of translation revolve around the dichotomy faithful/unfaithful, this book will surprise and delight even Borges's closest readers and critics.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708325386
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Adolfo Bioy Casares by : Karl Posso

Download or read book Adolfo Bioy Casares written by Karl Posso and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reconsiders the work and cultural import of Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), who is best known for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges.

Borges's Poe

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820349054
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Borges's Poe by : Emron Esplin

Download or read book Borges's Poe written by Emron Esplin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esplin argues that Borges, through a sustained and complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer.

Volume 12, Tome V: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351875140
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Volume 12, Tome V: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art by : Jon Stewart

Download or read book Volume 12, Tome V: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work of major cultural figures not just in Denmark and Scandinavia but also in the wider world. They have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary style, and his rich images, parables, and allegories. The present volume documents this influence in the different language groups and traditions. Tome V treats the work of a heterogeneous group of writers from the Romance languages and from Central and Eastern Europe. Kierkegaard has been particularly important for Spanish literature: the Argentine writers Jorge Luis Borges, Leonardo Castellani, and Ernesto Sábato, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, and the Spanish essayist and philosopher María Zambrano were all inspired to varying degrees by him. The Dane also appears in the work of Romanian writer Max Blecher, while the Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa was almost certainly inspired by Kierkegaard’s use of pseudonyms. Kierkegaard has also influenced diverse literary figures from Central and Eastern Europe. His influence appears in the novels of the contemporary Hungarian authors Péter Nadas and Péter Esterházy, the work of the Russian writer and literary critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz and the Czech novelist Ivan Klíma. Tome V also examines how Kierkegaard’s treatment of the story of Abraham and Isaac in Fear and Trembling interested the Polish-born Israeli novelist Pinhas Sadeh.

Artful Assassins

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Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826517285
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis Artful Assassins by : Fernando Fabio Sanchez

Download or read book Artful Assassins written by Fernando Fabio Sanchez and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grim role of violence in shaping modern Mexican identity

The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197535275
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges by : Oxford Handbooks

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges written by Oxford Handbooks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges contextualizes the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's work for a new generation of twenty-first-century readers and critics. Most known for his creative fictions that tackle literary questions of authorship as well as more philosophical notions such as multiverse theory, Borges has captivated scholars from a variety of disciplines since his emergence on the international scene. This volume shifts the emphasis to Borges's working life, his writing processes, his collaborations and networks, and the political and cultural background of his production. It also evaluates his impact on a variety of other fields ranging from political science and philosophy to media studies and mathematics.

Serial Crime Fiction

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137483695
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Serial Crime Fiction by : Carolina Miranda

Download or read book Serial Crime Fiction written by Carolina Miranda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television.

World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes]

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313080836
Total Pages : 1509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes] by : Maureen Ihrie

Download or read book World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes] written by Maureen Ihrie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 1509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. Providing a thorough introduction to Spanish-language literature worldwide and across time is a tall order. However, World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. This encyclopedia describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe. All countries that produce literature in Spanish in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia are represented, covering both canonical authors and emerging contemporary writers and trends. Underrepresented writings—such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism—also appear. While writings throughout the centuries are covered, those of the 20th and 21st centuries receive special consideration.

Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009188798
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4 by : Amanda Holmes

Download or read book Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4 written by Amanda Holmes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that characterised literature from the period. In doing so, it uncovers the points of transition, connection, contradiction, and tension that shaped the work of many canonical and non-canonical authors. It illuminates the conversations between genres, literary movements, disciplines and modes of representation that underpin writing form this period. Lastly, by focusing on canon and beyond, the volume visibilizes the aesthetics, poetics, politics, and social projects of writing, incorporating established writers, but also writers whose work is yet to be examined in all its complexity.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813913339
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library by : C. Jared Loewenstein

Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection at the University of Virginia Library written by C. Jared Loewenstein and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a decade in compilation, this catalogue is the most complete checklist to date of works by and about Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer Borges (1899-1988). The catalogue describes the holdings in the Borges collection at the U. of Virginia Library, the world's finest and most complete collection of works by and about Borges. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Antiheroes

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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636442
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Antiheroes by : Ilan Stavans

Download or read book Antiheroes written by Ilan Stavans and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presentation of the author's psychoanalytic beliefs and experiences inchild psychoanalytic therapy.

The Literature of Spain and Latin America

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Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615302298
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Literature of Spain and Latin America written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the whimsical idealism of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote to the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude, Spanish-language literature has substantially enriched the global literary canon. This volume examines the vibrant prose and dynamic range of both Spanish and Latin American authors, whose narratives are informed as much by their imaginations as the turbulent histories of these native lands. Influenced by a plethora of diverse cultures, these tales truly tell a global story.

In Search of the Latin American Faulkner

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Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819198938
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Book Synopsis In Search of the Latin American Faulkner by : Tanya T. Fayen

Download or read book In Search of the Latin American Faulkner written by Tanya T. Fayen and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of the Latin American Faulkner is an exhaustive exploration of the shifting interaction between Faulkner's works and the literary repertory of Spanish-speaking Latin America that went on for half a century. Fayen's study sketches a previously unexplored history of the evolution of the modern Latin American literary establishment. This work describes the pre-history of contemporary Latin American narrative, with particular attention to the Spanish-speaking Latin American 'boom'-- from the early dominance of peninsular Spanish literary norms to the gradual weakening of these norms and the complete opening up to foreign innovations, when Latin American literature came into its own. Contents: In Search of a Theoretical Model; The Ambiguous Problem of Influence; Polysystem Theory: Performing Descriptive Translation Studies; A Shift of Norms in the Latin American Polysystem; Faulkner's U.S. Critical Reception; Critical Reception of Faulkner in Latin America; The Translations; Conclusion.

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134399596
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 by : Daniel Balderston

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 written by Daniel Balderston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900–2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well as being of huge interest to those folowing Spanish or Portuguese language courses.