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Daniel Balderston. How Borges Wrote. U Of Virginia P, 2018., Jeremy Glazier
Daniel Balderston. How Borges Wrote. U Of Virginia P, 2018., Jeremy Glazier
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Daniel Balderston. How Borges Wrote. U of Virginia P, 2018.
The Trope Of Nature In Latin American Literature: Some Examples , Becky Boling
The Trope Of Nature In Latin American Literature: Some Examples , Becky Boling
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The article examines the trope of nature through selected texts from Latin American literature, from the writings of Christopher Columbus to more contemporary narratives such as those by Luis Sepúlveda and Mayra Montero. It focuses on the transition in the manner in which writers conceive of the "natural" world within their particular ideological contexts. From early manifestations of Utopian writing to texts extolling urbanization and development, the trope of nature undergoes several permutations which say a great deal about the ideological contexts of the writers and their conceptualization of the place of humans in the scheme of things. Late 20th …