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Shipwreck and deliverance : politics, culture and modernity in the works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa

Title
  1. Shipwreck and deliverance : politics, culture and modernity in the works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa / Todd Oakley Lutes.
Published by
  1. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2003.
Author
  1. Lutes, Todd Oakley.

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Description
  1. xiv, 172 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. Examines the social, political, and cultural problems that exist in society and contrasts common European and American understanding of those problems through the major works of contemporary Latin American literaure.
Subject
  1. Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998 > Political and social views
  2. García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014 > Political and social views
  3. Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- > Political and social views
  4. Paz, Octavio 1914-1998 > Pensamiento político
  5. García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927- > Pensamiento político
  6. Vargas Llosa, Mario 1936- > Pensamiento político
  7. García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014
  8. Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998
  9. Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
  10. Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955 > Influence
  11. Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
  12. Ortega y Gasset, José
  13. Paz, Octavio
  14. García Márquez, Gabriel
  15. Vargas Llosa, Mario
  16. 1900-1999
  17. Spanish American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  18. Modernism (Literature) > Latin America
  19. Rationalism
  20. rationalism (philosophy)
  21. 18.33 Spanish-American literature
  22. Modernism (Literature)
  23. Political and social views
  24. Spanish American literature
  25. Modernität
  26. Spaans
  27. Letterkunde
  28. Modernisme (cultuur)
  29. Politieke aspecten
  30. Latin American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  31. Latin America
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Introduction: The Modern Mind -- Conceptualizing Modernity -- Four Characteristic Transformations -- Weber's Conception of "Rational Action" -- The Problems of Modernity -- The Philosophical Problem of Modernity -- The Cultural Problem of Modernity -- The Political Problem of Modernity -- Modernity in the Context of Human Struggle -- Jose Ortega y Gasset -- Competing Responses to the Crisis of Modernity -- Ortega's Influence on Spanish Literature -- The Life and Literature of Underdevelopment -- Living with Underdevelopment -- The Literature of Underdevelopment -- Time and Reality -- Life as the Present Moment -- Solitude and Love -- Love as Lifestyle -- Power, Politics, and Recovery -- Criticism and Dignity in Life.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [156]-165) and index.