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Borges' Narrative Strategy [Hardback]
Donald L. Shaw (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205847
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
There is general consensus about the meaning of most of the stories of Jorge Luis Borges, perhaps the best known and most cosmopolitan Latin American writer of the twentieth century. Professor Shaw turns to the less examined area of structure a... .... Learn More -
Lorca's Late Poetry: A Critical Survey [Hardback]
Andrew A. Anderson (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780905205786
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Federico García Lorca (1898-1938), is often thought of as a fine lyric poet of the 1920s who then developed into one of Spain's greatest playwrights (1931-36). But other aspects of Lorca's literary career are equally significant: the earlier t... .... Learn More -
Jose Donoso: The "Boom" and Beyond [Hardback]
Philip Swanson (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780905205649
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The work of José Donoso, the renowned Chilean writer of fiction, is surveyed in this volume, which concentrates on his novelistic prodiction up to 1981. Philip Swanson analyses each novel in detail and plots the twin development of narrative t... .... Learn More -
The Early Pardo Bazan. Theme and Narrative Technique in the Novels of 1879-89 [Hardback]
David Henn (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205632
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Emilia Pardo Bazán, born in the north-west Spanish region of Galicia in 1851, remained active as a prolific novelist, short-story writer and literary critic almost up to her death in 1921. David Henn examines Bazán's main thematic concerns in h... .... Learn More -
A History of Peruvian Literature [Hardback]
James Higgins (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780905205359
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Peru, which in this century has produced world-renowned novelists of the stature of Mario Vargas Llosa and José María Arguedas, and poets such as the avant-garde CésarVallejo, possesses a distinctive and varied literary culture of great intrin... .... Learn More -
Vision and the Visual Arts in Galdos: A Study of the Novels and Newspaper Articles [Hardback]
Peter A. Bly (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205304
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Throughout his life the major Spanish novelist Benito Perez Galdós (1843-1920) took a keen interest in the visual arts. Parts I and II of this book discuss Galdós's art journalism and his artistic contributions to the illustrated edition of the... .... Learn More -
Reading Onetti. Language Narrative and the Subject [Hardback]
Mark Millington (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205267
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti (born 1909) is one of the leading exponents of the new Spanish American novel. This study offers a close reading of the novels published between 1939 and 1964, and of Dejemos hablar al viento (1919). Dr Millingt... .... Learn More -
The Structured World of Jorge Guillen: A Study of Cantico and Clamor [Hardback]
E. Matthews (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780905205236
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
In this study of the work of Jorge Guillén (1893-1984), an important twentieth-century Spanish poet, Dr Matthews argues that his vision of the world as an ordered harmonious unity is echoed in the structural symmetry of his work. Close analysis... .... Learn More -
The Deceptive Realism of Machado de Assis: A Dissenting Interpretation of Dom Casmurro [Hardback]
John Gledson (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780905205199
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1839, is regarded as the greatest Latin-American novelist of the nineteenth century. Dom Casmurro (1899) is one of his most important works. Its narrator, Bento, who is als... .... Learn More -
Galdos's Novel of the Historical Imagination: A Study of the Contemporary Novels [Hardback]
Peter A. Bly (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780905205144
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
The Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific novelist, and ranks with Balzac and Dickens as a chronicler of nineteenth-century society. His 46 historical novels (the episodios nacionales) dealt with the major events of Spa... .... Learn More
