The uses of nonsense : antimodernism in Latin American fiction, 1920-1977
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The Uses of Nonsense reconsiders four Latin American prose writers as "antiphilosophical" stylists, in the terminology proposed by Alain Badiou and separately, Boris Groys. My thesis argues that Macedonio Fernández, Jorge Luis Borges, João Guimarães Rosa, and Clarice Lispector modeled themselves in the tradition of antiphilosophical thinkers who intervened in Western philosophical thought from across its disciplinary borders, particularly from the realm of fiction. These writers use literary tropes of nonsense to critique what Herbert Marcuse called the "irrational rationality" of both socialist and capitalist modernity. The Uses of Nonsense thus challenges the notion that Latin America produced no original philosophical ideas.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Morris, Adam |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Primary advisor | Rocha, Marília Librandi |
| Thesis advisor | Hoyos Ayala, Héctor |
| Thesis advisor | Rocha, Marília Librandi |
| Thesis advisor | Predmore, Michael P |
| Thesis advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
| Advisor | Predmore, Michael P |
| Advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Adam Morris. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Adam James Morris
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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