This scholarly book (Literary Criticism and Geography) expands upon
previous interpretations of Chilean Baldomero Lillo and Argentine
Leopoldo Lugones in order to read each author against the other-and
both against the grain. Departing from staid literary paradigms
that see Lugones as the quintessential Modernist and Lillo as
Zola's Latin American Naturalist counterpart, Fraser explores those
aspects of each writer's work that have resisted canonical
explanation. Each chapter is devoted to an individual
element-Earth, Fire, Air and Water-and dialogues with geographical
understandings of the intersection between space and culture. WHAT
THE CRITICS ARE SAYING: Fraser's unexpected comparison of the prose
works by Chilean Baldomero Lillo (1867-1923) and the Argentine
Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938) has resulted in a fascinating and
insightful study that opens new avenues of investigation. Focusing
on issues related to modernization, the abuse of natural resources,
and the unpredictability of scientific explorations, Fraser makes
these early twentieth-century texts relevant today and to
disciplines beyond literary studies. -CATHY L. JRADE, Vanderbilt
University, Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Department Chair
In Elemental Geographies Benjamin Fraser-known for his work on
Spanish literature and culture successfully crosses over into the
study of Spanish American literature with a comparative examination
of the short fiction of two seemingly disparate writers. Fraser
illuminates the points of convergence between Lillo and Lugones
while carrying out an analysis of exceptional breadth that should
appeal to readers interested in Spanish American modernismo,
studies of sound and space, ecocriticism, and the study of early
twentieth century occult sciences. -NAOMI E. LINDSTROM, University
of Texas at Austin, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Benjamin
Fraser has constructed a singularly enlightening, multi-faceted
matrix of the overlapping areas-and previously uncharted
territories-that lie between and among naturalism and modernismo;
literature and geography; science and the occult; landscape,
seascape, and soundscape. With Elemental Geographies, Fraser adds a
highly original and fecund analysis to the field of Latin American
literary and cultural studies, illuminating the prose works of
Leopoldo Lugones and Baldomero Lillo with imminence and urgency for
the 21st-century reader. -BRUCE DEAN WILLIS, University of Tulsa,
Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature _
BENJAMIN FRASER is Associate Professor of Hispanic Cultural Studies
and Film at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. The
author/editor of nine books and some sixty articles in Hispanic
Studies and beyond, he is the current Managing Editor of the
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, the Founding and
Executive Editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, and an
Associate Editor of the Journal Hispania.
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