Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion

Author: Joshua King

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-02

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780814255292

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Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo
The Dissonant Legacy of Modernismo

Author: Gwen Kirkpatrick

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0520329805

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

I the Supreme
I the Supreme

Author: Augusto Roa Bastos

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2019-02-26

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0525564691

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I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

An Empty House
An Empty House

Author: Carlos Cerda

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803264250

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A story of contemporary Chile by one of its most prominent novelists, An Empty House depicts the dissolution of an upper-middle-class family against a chilling background of exile, return, and discovery. The stark and moving narrative suggests the enormity of the horrors perpetrated in Chile over the last decades, horrors that resonate through the culture to this day. Cecilia and Manuel accept her father?s gift of a house, in hope of repairing their unraveling marriage along with the badly scarred building. Instead, the couple?s efforts expose the horrifying truth about the building?and reveal the subtle strands of complicity, responsibility, and indifference that bind them to each other, their country, and its dark past. ø With its deftly drawn characters, play of ideas, and vivid dialogue, An Empty House gives English-speaking readers a memorable portrait of Chile today: honest, brutally realistic, but with a redemptive touch of lyricism and hope.

Bliss
Bliss

Author: Katherine Mansfield

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-01-19

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3734721121

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Bliss and Other Stories is a 1920 collection of short stories by the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield.

The Poetics of Gender
The Poetics of Gender

Author: Nancy K. Miller

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780231063111

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Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender is a brilliant assembly of leading feminist critics whose collective effort presents the most up-to-date research on these important issues. The range of techniques and theories represented here are applied across a broad spectrum of texts and cultural forms, extending from women's writing of the Renaissance and the fiction of George Sand to the relation between quiltmaking and nineteenth-century literary forms, the pornography of Georges Bataille, and the theories of Julia Kristeva.