Erotic mysticism : subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016. ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (179 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 310 North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 310.
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. Erotic literature, Spanish American. Modernism (Literature) Mysticism in literature. Spanish American literature. Latin America. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11307718

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Varying Form of Title:	Subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose
ISBN:	9781469637914 146963791X 9781469630779 146963077X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: LaGreca, Nancy, 1972- Erotic mysticism. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016 9781469630779

Table of 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.

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