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Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer’s work.

Table of Contents
  • Editors’ Introduction (Luis Leal)
  • History and Myth in the Narrative of Carlos Fuentes (John S. Brushwood)
  • Los días enmascarados and Cantar de ciegos: Reading the Stories and Reading the Books (Richard M. Reeve)
  • The Making of La región más transparente: 1949–1974 (Lanin A. Gyurko)
  • La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Citizen Kane: A Comparative Analysis (Jaime Alazraki)
  • Theme and System in Carlos Fuentes’ Aura (Frank Dauster)
  • The Wounded Vision: Aura, Zona sagrada, and Cumpleaños (Malva E. Filer)
  • A Change of Skin and the Shaping of a Mexican Time (Roberto González Echevarría)
  • Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice (Mary E. Davis)
  • On Becoming Velázquez: Carlos Fuentes’ The Hydra Head (Margaret Sayers Peden)
  • Forking Paths, Infinite Novels, Ultimate Narrators (Gloria Durán)
  • Dolls and Puppets as Wish-Fulfillment Symbols in Carlos Fuentes (Merlin H. Forster)
  • Carlos Fuentes as Dramatist (Manuel Durán)
  • Carlos Fuentes as an Art Critic (George Gordon Wing)
  • Some Remarks on the Literary Criticism of Carlos Fuentes
  • Chronology
  • Notes on Contributors

Carlos Fuentes A Critical View

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/09/1982
      ISBN13: 9780292729711, 978-0292729711
      ISBN10: 0292729715

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer’s work.

      Table of Contents
      • Editors’ Introduction (Luis Leal)
      • History and Myth in the Narrative of Carlos Fuentes (John S. Brushwood)
      • Los días enmascarados and Cantar de ciegos: Reading the Stories and Reading the Books (Richard M. Reeve)
      • The Making of La región más transparente: 1949–1974 (Lanin A. Gyurko)
      • La muerte de Artemio Cruz and Citizen Kane: A Comparative Analysis (Jaime Alazraki)
      • Theme and System in Carlos Fuentes’ Aura (Frank Dauster)
      • The Wounded Vision: Aura, Zona sagrada, and Cumpleaños (Malva E. Filer)
      • A Change of Skin and the Shaping of a Mexican Time (Roberto González Echevarría)
      • Terra Nostra: Theory and Practice (Mary E. Davis)
      • On Becoming Velázquez: Carlos Fuentes’ The Hydra Head (Margaret Sayers Peden)
      • Forking Paths, Infinite Novels, Ultimate Narrators (Gloria Durán)
      • Dolls and Puppets as Wish-Fulfillment Symbols in Carlos Fuentes (Merlin H. Forster)
      • Carlos Fuentes as Dramatist (Manuel Durán)
      • Carlos Fuentes as an Art Critic (George Gordon Wing)
      • Some Remarks on the Literary Criticism of Carlos Fuentes
      • Chronology
      • Notes on Contributors

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