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Intertextuality And Subversion: Poems By Ana Rossetti And Amparo Amorós, Andrew P. Debicki

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In the last two decades, a number of Spanish women poets have written very significant works which use intertextuality to lead their readers into new perspectives and attitudes toward literary and social conventions. By examining two texts by Rossetti and Amorós that use intertexts to undermine, respectively, traditional "carpe diem" poetry and sexually allusive verse of different kinds, the article suggests that they reflect new, post-modern literary currents.

The Dangers Of Gullible Reading: Narrative As Seduction In García Márquez' Love In The Time Of Cholera, M. Keith Booker

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera has frequently been read largely as a beautiful love story involving the lifelong fascination of Florentino Ariza with Fermina Daza and the eventual consummation of that fascination. Meanwhile, the text gains much of its energy from an opposition between the poetic romanticism of Ariza and the practical (though somewhat sinister) scientific thinking of Dr. Juvenal Urbino, Fermina's longtime husband. However, this opposition is not nearly as simple as it might appear, Ariza and Urbino being just as susceptible to the narrative of scientific progress as Ariza is to bad poetry, and …

Reviews Of Recent Publications, Various Authors

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Granqvist, Raoul, editor. Canonization and Teaching of African Literature. Matatu 7 by Claire L. Dehon

Margolis, Joseph. Texts Without Referents: Reconciling Science and Narrative by David J. Depew

Keitel, Evelyne. Reading Psychosis, Readers, Texts and psychoanalysis by Reinhild Steingrover

Shaviro, Steven. Passion and excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory by Steven Ungar

Kellner, Douglas. Jean Baudrillard From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond by Allan Stoeld

Pecorora, Vincent P. Self & Form in Modern Narrative by Walter A. Strauss

Jordan, Barry. Writers and Politics in Franco's Spain by Salvador J. Fajardo

Motard-Noar, Martine. Les Fictions d'Hélène Cixous. Une autre lanque de …

The Oldest Trick In The Book: Borges And The "Rhetoric Of Immediacy'', James Winchell

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In his most "philosophical'' texts, Jorge Luis Borges paradoxically posits the act of reading as the scene of affectively "immediate" experience: his reader reads a reader reading (ad infinitum). This sort of hyper-meditated, specular imitation actually comes to mirror the substantive preoccupation of the "philosophical" text itself. Borges thereby breaks down what Theodor Adorno calls "concept fetishism'' by making mimesis his textual concept. Given Italo Calvino's claim for the novelty of "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim" in relation to modern genres, I propose a two-fold thesis: first, that this typically Borgesian narrative juxtaposes concept and mimesis (a traditional …

Reviews Of Recent Publications, Various Authors

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Sagan Gubar. Blindspots of an Old Dream of Equality: Liberal Feminism as Exclusionary Practice in No Man's Land