Eunice Rojas

Spaces of Madness

Insane Asylums in Argentine Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780739190869
• ISBN-10: 0739190865
• Artikelnr.: 41479005

Autorenporträt

By Eunice Rojas

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Early Asylums:
Manuel Podestá, Horacio Quiroga, and Roberto Arlt Chapter 2: The Asylum in
the Works of Julio Cortázar and Adolfo Bioy Casares Chapter 3: The
Schizophrenic Machine in Ricardo Piglia's Asylum Chapter 4: Luisa
Valenzuela's Passage through the Asylum Chapter 5: Juan José Saer's
Committed Detective Chapter 6: The Asylum as Juan José Saer's Argentine
Founding Myth Chapter 7: The Poet as Patient: The Literary Life of Jacobo
Fijman Conclusion Works Cited About the Author