Title Erotic mysticism : subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose / by Nancy LaGreca

Published Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (179 pages) Series North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 310 North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 310. Contents Introduction : erotic mysticism 1890s-1920s : "the worst moral stigma" -- The context of non-theistic erotic mysticism : positivist and Catholic discourses in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Latin America -- Theories of non-theistic mysticism in essayistic prose : Carlos Díaz Duffo (Mexico 1861-1941) and Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (Venezuela 1871-1927) -- Decadence under cover : resurrecting Resurrección (Colombia) by José María Rivas Groot -- Death and the feminine erotic : La Rosa Muerta (The dead rose; 1914) by Zoila Aurora Cáceres (Peru) -- A Byzantine manifesto on erotic pluralism : El Evangelio del amor (The gospel of love; 1922) by Enrique Gómez Carrillo -- Concluding thoughts : subversion, transcendence, and the ongoing quest for blissful unity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index Notes Print version record Subject Modernism (Literature) -- Latin America Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Spanish American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Erotic literature, Spanish American -- History and criticism Mysticism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. Erotic literature, Spanish American Modernism (Literature) Mysticism in literature Spanish American literature Latin America Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469637914 146963791X

Other Titles Subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose

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