Reflexive writing and the negotiation of Spanish modernity : autobiography and fiction in Terenci Moixs novels /

Covering nine major works of Catalan writer Terenci Moix, Reflexive Writing and the Negotiation of Spanish Modernity places Moixs fictional prose against the backdrop of his autobiographical novels, thus highlighting the importance of the authors daily life experiences and their transmutation into t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Arthur J., 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2019]
Series:Currents in comparative Romance languages and literatures ; vol. 255
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Table of Contents:
  • Placing Moix in context
  • Modernity, autobiography, and reflexivity
  • Writing the modern self in Moix's autobiographical fiction
  • Playing with the body: monotheism and body/sexual politics. Nuestro virgen de losmártires and El amargo don de la belleza
  • Transgressing through carnival and violence in Món mascle
  • Reflexivity, space, and gender in Sadístic, esperpèntic i àdhuc metafísic
  • "Aesthetics, sexualities and excess" in Amami, Alfredo!: Polvo de estrellas: novela con soprano and La herida de la Esfinge: capriccio romántico
  • Placing Moix in context
  • Modernity, autobiography, and reflexivity
  • Writing the modern self in Moixs autobiographical fiction
  • Playing with the body: monotheism and body/sexual politics. Nuestro virgen de losmártires and El amargo don de la belleza
  • Transgressing through carnival and violence in Món mascle
  • Reflexivity, space, and gender in Sadístic, esperpèntic i àdhuc metafísic
  • Aesthetics, sexualities and excess in Amami, Alfredo!: Polvo de estrellas: novela con soprano and La herida de la Esfinge: capriccio romántico