The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10245787 |
Table of Contents:
- Education and entropy in Bernal Dβiaz del Castillo's War to stop time
- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters
- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision
- Josβe Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure
- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail)
- Guillermo Gβomez-Peδna : bordering on madness and performing liminality
- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.