Post-totalitarian Spanish Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 0826210716
- ISBN-13
- 9780826210715
- Category
- Spanish fiction
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Author
- Robert C. Spires
Description
This study records an epistemic shift away from logocentric and totalizing approaches to reality by analyzing the links between the novelistic strategies used by Spanish writers from 1975 to 1989 and recent international events and theoretical trends in science, mathematics, communication studies, and art.
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