Roberto Bolano In Context by Jonathan B Monroe
This book provides a comprehensive, indispensable map for readers at all levels to explore the pivotal contexts, shaping events, and enduring concerns informing the diverse body of work of one of the most consequential writers of the late 20th century and the turn of the millennium.
'[An] indispensable volume that situates Bolaño in his historical, cultural and literary context, providing the necessary background to make sense of his life, work and legacy' Claudio Palomares-Salas, Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Jonathan B. Monroe is Professor of Comparative Literature, and a member of the Graduate Fields of Comparative Literature, English, and Romance Studies, at Cornell University. He is the author of Framing Roberto Bolaño: Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics, also with Cambridge University Press (2019); A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre; and Demosthenes' Legacy, a book of prose poems and short fiction. Co-author and editor of Writing and Revising the Disciplines; Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell; Poetry Community, Movement (Diacritics), and Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries (Poetics Today), he has published widely on questions of genre, writing and disciplinary practices, innovative poetries of the past two centuries, and avant-garde movements and their contemporary legacies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108835671 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108835678 |
| Title | Roberto Bolano In Context |
| Author | Jonathan B Monroe |
| Series | Literature In Context |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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