Todd Oakley Lutes

Shipwreck and Deliverance

Politics, Culture and Modernity in the works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vegas Llosa

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Produktbeschreibung

Shipwreck and Deliverance contrasts common European and American understandings of the philosophical, cultural and political problems of modernity with fresh perspectives written into the novels and essays of three major Latin American authors (Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vegas Llosa).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780761824794
• ISBN-10: 0761824790
• Artikelnr.: 21008537

Autorenporträt

By Todd Oakley Lutes

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 List of Figures Chapter 2 List of Tables Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 Introduction: The Modern Mind Chapter 6
Conceptualizing Modernity: Four Characteristic Transformations; Weber's
Conception of "Rational Action" Chapter 7 The Problems of Modernity: The
Philosophical Problem of Modernity; The Cultural Problem of Modernity; The
Political Problem of Modernity Chapter 8 Modernity in the Context of Human
Struggle: José Ortega y Gasset; Competing Responses to the Crisis of
Modernity; Ortega's Influence on Spanish Literature Chapter 9 The Life and
Literature of Underdevelopment: Living with Underdevelopment; The
Literature of Underdevelopment Chapter 10 Time and Reality: Time; Reality;
Life as the Present Moment Chapter 11 Solitude and Love: Solitude; Love;
Love as Lifestyle Chapter 12 Power, Politics, and Recovery: Power;
Politics; Criticism and Dignity in Life Chapter 13 Bibliography of Works
Cited Chapter 14 Index

Rezensionen

In this thoughtful study, author Todd Oakley Lutes seeks to demonstrate how the "outgrowth of the cluturla and philosophical problems of modernity" produced their owne political problems. British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain