Research Catalog

Title

Carlos Fuentes's terra nostra and the kabbalah : the recreation of the Hispanic world / Sheldon Penn.

Author

Penn, Sheldon, 1968-

Publication

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2003.

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Description

xiii, 277 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Hispanic literature ; v. 81

Uniform Title

Hispanic literature ; v. 81.

Subject

• Cabala in literature
• Fuentes, Carlos > Philosophy
• Fuentes, Carlos > Philosphy
• Fuentes, Carlos
• Regeneration in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-270), filmography (p. [271]) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Defining the Territory -- Kabbalistic Sources of Terra nostra and this Study of the Novel -- A General Introduction to the Kabbalah -- The Contextualization of Terra nostra within Fuentes's Novelistic Vision: A Re-Vindication of the Kabbalah -- Ch. 2. Between Sound and Silence: The Kabbalistic Concept of Language and its Operation in Terra nostra -- The Birth of a Novelistic Language -- Language as Life-Giving Force -- Naming, and the Diving Name as Mystical Revelation -- Linguistic Mediation -- Ch. 3. Terra nostra and the Visual Image: Celestina as Metaphysical Woman -- The Desire for a Dialogue between Artistic Media -- 'La violenta identidad de Jose Luis Cuevas' -- The Modernist Interartistic Tradition -- The Incorporation of the Visual and the Exploration of Otherness -- Cultural Regeneration via Mythological Symbolism -- Art and Sacred Mystery: an Interartistic Symbology -- Ch. 4. A Kabbalistic Time for Terra nostra -- Questioning the Default 'Western' Time -- The Story of Quetzalcoatl and the Regenerative Potential of Aztec Mythology -- The Fusion of Myth and Philosophy and the Formulation of the Kabbalah -- The Influence of Alejo Carpentier on Terra nostra's Kabbalistic Employment of Time -- A Narrative that Aspires to Simultaneity -- The Activation of a Mythical and Mystical Absolute Present via Memory and Imagination -- Ch. 5. A Novelistic Historiography -- Memory, Desire and Textuality: a Definition of the Historical for Terra nostra -- Historical Influences -- Is Terra nostra a Return to a 'Prediscursive' Golden Age of Hispanic Culture? -- The Return to the Past as a Catalyst for Metamorphosis and Cultural Plurality -- The Centrality of Textual Commentary in Judaism and the Kabbalistic Radicalization of the Text as the Site of Societal Rejuvenation -- Textual Tradition and Intertextuality: Terra nostra's Kabbalistic and Novelistic Historiography.

ISBN

0773467114 (hc)

LCCN

^^2003052718

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Harvard Library