Tradition and Modernity in Spanish-American Literature: From Dar?o to Carpentier

by Adam Sharman (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $114.96

  This book explores a corpus of Spanish-American literary texts from that 'modern' period which dramatize the constitutive dynamics of modernity, in particular the legacy of the French Revolution, the logic of nationalism, the founding of the modern city, and the awkward relationship to both Western and indigenous traditions.