El Sueno De La Razon Y La Pesadilla De La Historia En Las Trilogias De Carlos Rojas/The Dream of Reason and the Nightmare of History in Carlos Rojas's Trilogies

by Lee, Cecilia Castro; Feal, Carlos

• ISBN13: 9780773449640
• ISBN10: 0773449647
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Summary

This study explores the narrative art of Spanish writer Carlos Rojas (1928-) based on the analysis of his mature fictional works, or the Trilogies written between 1978 and 1995. This work dismantles Rojas's multiple-layered texts espousing his art of fabulation. Different narrative strategies and theoretical themes lead to diverse readings: mythical, ekphrastic, historical, existentialist, metaphysical, and ideological. This work is based on contemporary literary theory: Eco's Open Work, Kristeva's intertextuality, Hutcheon's Poetics of Postmodernity, White's History as Narrative, Turner's Liminality, Kreiger's Exphrasis and Bakhtin's Dialogic Imagination.

Author Biography

Dr. Cecilia Castro Lee, born Bogota, Colombia, is Professor Emerita of Spanish at The University of West Georgia. She holds a doctorate from Emory University. She co-edited a book of essays on Carlos Rojas's narrative entitled En torno al hombre y a monstruos.