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Pragmatic passions : melodrama and Latin American social narrative / Matthew Bush.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ediciones de Iberoamericana ; 74.Publisher: Madrid ; Orlando : Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2014Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783954878147
  • 3954878143
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pragmatic passions.DDC classification:
  • 860.9/98 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081 .B94 2014eb
Other classification:
  • 18.33
Online resources:
Contents:
Stirring emotion, assessing progress -- Do�na B�arbara or the complications of clear-cut melodrama -- Suffering and retribution : the politicized theatrics of El tungsteno -- What more can one man do? : Disillusionment and conformity in El amor brujo -- Romance, intrigue, and more in Gabriela, cravo e canela -- Episodes of passion and remorse : the excesses of La muerte de Artemio Cruz -- And then-- melodrama beyond the boom.
Summary: From the era of the wars for independence onward, the emotionally heightened and ethically charged theatrics of melodrama have played a substantial role in the framing of Latin American fictional narrative. Over that same time period, melodramatic reasoning has influenced the critical models through which the countries of Latin America conceive their respective histories and political landscapes. Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative demonstrates how melodrama is deployed as a convincing means of affectively narrating socio-political messages, yet how it also unwittingly undermines the narrative structure of paradigmatic works by R�omulo Gallegos, C�esar Vallejo, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Amado, and Carlos Fuentes.--From publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.

Stirring emotion, assessing progress -- Do�na B�arbara or the complications of clear-cut melodrama -- Suffering and retribution : the politicized theatrics of El tungsteno -- What more can one man do? : Disillusionment and conformity in El amor brujo -- Romance, intrigue, and more in Gabriela, cravo e canela -- Episodes of passion and remorse : the excesses of La muerte de Artemio Cruz -- And then-- melodrama beyond the boom.

From the era of the wars for independence onward, the emotionally heightened and ethically charged theatrics of melodrama have played a substantial role in the framing of Latin American fictional narrative. Over that same time period, melodramatic reasoning has influenced the critical models through which the countries of Latin America conceive their respective histories and political landscapes. Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative demonstrates how melodrama is deployed as a convincing means of affectively narrating socio-political messages, yet how it also unwittingly undermines the narrative structure of paradigmatic works by R�omulo Gallegos, C�esar Vallejo, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Amado, and Carlos Fuentes.--From publisher's website.

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