A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 1855660784
- ISBN-13
- 9781855660786
- Category
- Literature and society
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Author
- Donald Leslie Shaw
Description
Drawing upon recent research, Shaw traces the pattern from Romanticism to the Boom and beyond and shows how presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations.
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