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Shaw, Donald Leslie was born on February 11, 1930 in Manchester, England. Son of Stephen Leslie and Lily (Hughes) Shaw.
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With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations.
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(Providing a basis for understanding the main lines of dev...)
Providing a basis for understanding the main lines of development of poetry in Spanish America after Vanguardism, this volume begins with an overview of the situation at the mid-century: the later work of Neruda and Borges, the emergence of Paz. Consideration is then given to the decisive impact of Parra and the rise of colloquial poetry, politico-social poetry (Dalton, Cardenal) and representative figures such as Orozco, Pacheco and Cisneros. The aim is to establish a few paths through the largely unmapped jungle of Spanish American poetry in the time period. The author emphasises the persistence of a generally negative view of the human condition and the poets' exploration of different ways of responding to it. These vary from outright scepticism to the ideological, the religious or those derived from some degree of confidence in the creative imagination as cognitive. At the same time there is analysis of the evolving outlook on poetry of the writers in question, both in regard to its possible social role and in regard to diction. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.
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(What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom?...)
What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism.
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(La edicion anterior (5ª) de Nueva narrativa hispanoameric...)
La edicion anterior (5ª) de Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana no incluia los apartados Posboom y Posmodernismo, por lo que esta que ahora presentamos debe considerarse como un nuevo libro y, por lo tanto, debe tratarse como una novedad.
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Shaw, Donald Leslie was born on February 11, 1930 in Manchester, England. Son of Stephen Leslie and Lily (Hughes) Shaw.
Bachelor, University Manchester, England, 1952. Master of Arts, University Manchester, England, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, University Dublin, Ireland, 1960.
Assistant lecturer University Dublin, 1955-1957, University Glasgow, Scotland, 1957-1964, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1964-1969, senior lecturer Scotland, 1969-1972, reader, professor spanish Scotland, 1972-1986. Professor spanish University Virginia, Charlottsville, since 1986. Visiting professor Brown University, Providence, 1967, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1983.
(What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom?...)
(Providing a basis for understanding the main lines of dev...)
(La edicion anterior (5ª) de Nueva narrativa hispanoameric...)
(With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Astur...)
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Served with Royal Air Force, 1953-1955.
Married Maria Concetta Cristini, June 30, 1958. Children: Andrew Leslie, Sylvia Maria Pierina.