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Shipwreck and deliverance : politics, culture and modernity in the works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa
- Title
- Shipwreck and deliverance : politics, culture and modernity in the works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa / Todd Oakley Lutes.
- Author
- Lutes, Todd Oakley.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2003.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 172 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Examines the social, political, and cultural problems that exist in society and contrasts common European and American understanding of those problems through the major works of contemporary Latin American literaure.
- Subject
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998 > Political and social views
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 > Political and social views
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- > Political and social views
- Paz, Octavio 1914-1998 > Pensamiento político
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927- > Pensamiento político
- Vargas Llosa, Mario 1936- > Pensamiento político
- García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
- Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
- Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955 > Influence
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
- Ortega y Gasset, José
- Paz, Octavio
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- 1900-1999
- Spanish American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) > Latin America
- Rationalism
- rationalism (philosophy)
- 18.33 Spanish-American literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Political and social views
- Spanish American literature
- Modernität
- Spaans
- Letterkunde
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Politieke aspecten
- Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Latin America
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-165) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Modern Mind -- Conceptualizing Modernity -- Four Characteristic Transformations -- Weber's Conception of "Rational Action" -- The Problems of Modernity -- The Philosophical Problem of Modernity -- The Cultural Problem of Modernity -- The Political Problem of Modernity -- Modernity in the Context of Human Struggle -- Jose Ortega y Gasset -- Competing Responses to the Crisis of Modernity -- Ortega's Influence on Spanish Literature -- The Life and Literature of Underdevelopment -- Living with Underdevelopment -- The Literature of Underdevelopment -- Time and Reality -- Life as the Present Moment -- Solitude and Love -- Love as Lifestyle -- Power, Politics, and Recovery -- Criticism and Dignity in Life.
- ISBN
- 0761824790
- 9780761824794
- LCCN
- 2002040913
- OCLC
- ocm50960696
- 50960696
- SCSB-9181152
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library