Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: M. Nicholson
EAN: 9781349449866
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3552 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-01-07
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
North America (USA and Canada), Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Cultural studies
"Nicholson offers an excellent, very useful work that traces a line of surrealist and surrealist-inspired texts in Latin America from 1928 to 1980. Scholarly studies exist of surrealism across various countries, or of poetry or painting alone in a single country (e.g., Argentina, Mexico). But few (perhaps none) have tried to analyze succinctly in a short work so many decades, countries, and genres." - CHOICE
Melanie Nicholson is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Bard College, USA.
