Literature and liminality : festive readings in the Hispanic tradition

著者

• Pérez Firmat, Gustavo

書誌事項

Literature and liminality : festive readings in the Hispanic tradition

Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Duke University Press, 1986

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Recent literary studies and related disciplines have given much attention to phenomena that seem to occupy more or less permanently eccentric positions in our experience. Gustavo Perez Firmat examines three of these marginal or liminal phenomena--paying particular attention to the distinction between "center" and "periphery"--as they appear in Hispanic literature. Carnival (the traditional festival in which normal behavior is overturned), choteo (an insulting form of humor), and disease are three liminal entities discussed. Less an attempt to frame a general theory of such "liminalities" than an effort to demonstrate the interpretive power of the liminality concept, this work challenges conventional boundaries of critical sense and offers new insights into a variety of questions, among them the notion of convertability in psychoanalysis and the relation of New World culture to its European forebears.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA37530060
• ISBN:
  • 0822306581
• LCCN: 85013077
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Durham
• ページ数/冊数: xxi, 182 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PQ6045
  • DC19 : 860/.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Spanish literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Cuban literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism