Theoretical Fables : : The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Literature / / Alicia Borinsky.

Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent decades,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©1994
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. An Apprenticeship in Reading
  • Chapter 2. Taming the Reader
  • Chapter 3. Intelligence and Its Neighbors
  • Chapter 4. Literature as Risk
  • Chapter 5. A Poetics of Misencounters
  • Chapter 6. Is There Style Without Gender?
  • Chapter 7. The Lucidity of Inaction
  • Chapter 8. Closing the Book-Dogspeech
  • Chapter 9. Overstaying My Welcome: Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter