Journeys of Formation - The Spanish American "Bildungsroman" (Hardcover, New edition)

Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American 'Bildungsroman' offers a lucid introduction to the Bildungsroman as a genre before revealing how the journey motif works as both a plot-forming device and as a means of characterization in several of the most canonical Spanish American Bildungsromane. In the process, the author demonstrates the overlooked importance of the travel motif in this genre. Although present in the vast majority of Bildungsromane, if the journey is discussed at all by critics it tends to be in superficial terms. The author contends that no discussion of the Spanish American novel of formation would be complete without an exploration of travel. Yolanda A. Doub articulates the role of travel as a catalyst in the formation process of young male and female protagonists by examining in detail six representative novels from three different countries and time periods - from Argentina: Ricardo Guiraldes's Don Segundo Sombra (1926) and Roberto Arlt's El juguete rabioso (1926); from Peru: Jose Maria Arguedas's Los rios profundos (1958) and Julio Ramon Ribeyro's Cronica de San Gabriel (1960); and from Mexico: Rosario Castellanos's Balun Canan (1957) and Elena Poniatowska's La "Flor de Lis" (1988).

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Currents in Comparative Romance Languages & Literatures, 174
Release date:	March 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Yolanda A Doub
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	109
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0882-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > Classical, early & medieval Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-0882-8
Barcode:	9781433108822

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