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The burden of modernityThe burden of modernity

The burden of modernity1998

Carlos J. Alonso

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An interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America which argues that Spanish American cultural production is marked by an internal rhetoric crisis that resulted from the adoption of discourses regarded as modern in historical and economic circumstances that are, in fact, the negation of modernity.

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First published
1998
OL Work ID
OL2720816W

Subjects

Spanish American prose literatureHistory and criticismIntellectual lifeNarration (Rhetoric)Spanish american literature, history and criticismLatin america, intellectual life

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