Pragmatic Passions Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative
Demonstrates how melodrama is deployed as a convincing means of affectively narrating socio-political messages, yet how it also unwittingly undermines the narrative structure of paradigmatic works by Rómulo Gallegos, César Vallejo, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Amado, and Carlos Fuentes.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Castellano |
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Frankfurt am Main :
Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft
[2015]
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| Colección: | Ediciones de Iberoamericana. Historia y critica de la literature ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433615206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction: Stirring Emotion, Assessing Progress
- Doña Bárbara or the Complications of Clear-Cut Melodrama
- Suffering and Retribution: The Politicized Theatrics of El tungsteno
- What More Can One Man Do? Disillusionment and Conformity in El amor brujo
- Romance, Intrigue, and More in Gabriela, Cravo e Canela
- Episodes of Passion and Remorse: The Excesses of La muerte de Artemio Cruz
- Postscript: And then... Melodrama Beyond the Boom
- Bibliography
- Index
