Portable Literature by Stephen Mandell
One hundred years after his birth, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is considered one of the most important thinkers of Mexican identity, one of the most influential Mexican poets, and one of the main representatives of a national cosmopolitanism. Most readings of his work, whether critical or laudatory, operate within these parameters. Through a careful analysis of Latin Americanist discourses on identity and difference, Heterogeneity of Being goes beyond the standard interpretations of Octavio Paz as a thinker of national identity and proposes a radical rethinking of the rift and the bond between literature and philosophy. It puts forth the key concept of dif/herencia-a difference, a wound, an inheritance, a burden and a dispossession-and reads it through the notion of similitude in order to show that Paz's tradition of rupture properly displays a continuity between self and other, identity and difference, time and space. The work of Octavio Paz yields invaluable insights for the fields of literary theory, cultural studies, history of science, and art history.
During their long collaboration, Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell have written a number of best-selling college texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Patterns for College Writing, Foundations First, Writing First, Focus on Writing, and, most recently, Practical Argument. Laurie Kirszner is a Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of the Sciences, where she has taught composition, literature, creative writing, and scientific writing, and served as coordinator of the first-year writing program. Stephen Mandell is a Professor of English at Drexel University, where he founded and directed the basic writing program and has taught composition, literature, speech, and technical and business writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781111839048 |
| ISBN 10 | 1111839042 |
| Title | Portable Literature |
| Author | Stephen Mandell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wadsworth Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-01-11 |
| Number of pages | 1312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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