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1041228
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b795598
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Alonso, Carlos J.
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| Title & Author
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The burden of modernity : : the rhetoric of cultural discourse in Spanish America /\ Carlos J. Alonso.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1998.
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1 online resource (x, 227 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0195353358
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: 1280471166
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: 1423759931
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: 1602562628
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: 6610471169
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: 9780195353358
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: 9781280471162
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: 9781423759935
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: 9781602562622
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: 9786610471164
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0195118634
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9780195118636
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter 1 Modernity as Ideal and Curse; Chapter 2 Reading Sarmiento: Once More, with Passion; Chapter 3 Strange Fruit: The Discourse of the Cuban Antislavery Novel; Chapter 4 Oedipus in the Pampas: Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios Ranqueles; Chapter 5 Death and Resurrections: Horacio Quiroga's Poetics of the Short Story; Chapter 6 The Elementary Structure of Kinship: Vargas Llosa's La tía Julia y el escribidor; Chapter 7 The Closing of the Circle: The End of Modernity in Spanish America; Epilogue: They Have Never Been Modern (Either); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C.
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| Abstract
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An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Spanish American prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Spanish American prose literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- Spanish Portuguese.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Spanish American prose literature.
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Proza.
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Spaans.
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Latin America, Intellectual life, 19th century.
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Latin America, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Latin America.
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| Dewey Classification
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868/.08
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| LC Classification
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PQ7082.P76A69 1998eb
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