Todd S. Garth

Pariah in the Desert

The Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio Quiroga

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Produktbeschreibung

The first book in English on canonical Spanish American writer Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1936), Pariah in the Desert examines his works through the theoretical lens of the heroic and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This focus on reveals the ethical coherence galvanizing the extraordinary range of Quiroga's work and its engagement with multiples discourses of his time: gender conflict, immigration politics, neocolonial economics, foreign popular culture and film, scientific debate, and pedagogical innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487671
• ISBN-10: 1611487676
• Artikelnr.: 45191631

Autorenporträt

By Todd S. Garth

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Heroic Paradigm: Tradition and
Innovation of the Pariah-Hero Chapter 2: Strangers on the Land: Immigrants,
Neocolonialism and Monstrous Heroism Chapter 3: The Hollywood Invasion:
Silent Film as a Portal to the Heroic Living Dead Chapter 4: Men and Women:
Bourgeois Convention, the Female Abject and Heroic Gender Conflict Chapter
5: Inventive Nature: Science, Medicine, Technology and the Monstrous
Post-Darwin Hero Chapter 6: Concluding with Pedagogy: Father and Teacher as
Abject Hero Bibliography Index About the Author