Critical Insights: Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2014

ISBN13

9781619254022

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Mario Vargas Llosa and the critical discussions surrounding his work.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On Mario Vargas Llosa.
2: Biography of Mario Vargas Llosa.
Critical Contexts.
3: Authoritarianism, Rebellion, and the Father Figure in the Fictions of Vargas Llosa.
4: Reading Mario Vargas Llosa: The Ups, Downs, and Ups of a Literary Career.
5: Natural and Built Environments: Toward an Ecocritical Reading of the Novels of Mario Vargas Llosa.
6: Disentangling the Knots: Vargas Llosa and José María Arguedas in La Utopía Arcaica.
Critical Readings.
7: Charisma and the Structures of Power: Vargas Llosa's Early Short Stories.
8: The Time of the Hero: The Moral Itinerary.
9: From Conversation to Feast: Vargas Llosa's Bookend Novels of Dictatorship.
10: From Parable to Pedagogy: Mario Vargas Llosa's War on Fanaticism.
11: The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta and The Storyteller: Success at Last for Mario Vargas Llosa's Professional Narrators.
12: Pessimism and Detection in Vargas Llosa's Who Killed Palomino Molero?.
13: Reflections on the Absurd: A Comparative Reading of Death in the Andes and The Time of the Hero.
14: Colonialism as a Smoke Screen: Anti-Nationalist Discourse in Vargas Llosa's The Dream of the Celt.
15: Dissonant Worlds: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Aesthetics of the Total Novel.
16: Mario Vargas Llosa and His Discontents.
Resources.
Chronology of Mario Vargas Llosa's Life.
Works by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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Critical Insights: Mario Vargas Llosa

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