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Index
Theoretical Fables
The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Contents
Preface
Notes
Chapter 1
An Apprenticeship in Reading: Macedonio Fernández
The Flip Side
The Privilege of Stumbling onto Eternity
How to Read and Write the "Good Novel"
Ideal Readers
Notes
Chapter 2
Taming the Reader: Jorge Luis Borges
Who is in Charge?
Who Owns an Author's Style?
The Paradoxes of Belonging: Jews and History
Answers
A Twist
Notes
Chapter 3
Intelligence and Its Neighbors: Gabriel García Márquez
Is There a Book In This Book?
The Intelligent Reader
What Are We Reading?
Let's Work with Facts
Scenes of Reading
Notes
Chapter 4
Literature as Risk: Julio Cortázar
The Open Book and Its Hoaxes
Literary Reception as a Novelistic Hypothesis: Morelli/Trepat
How Should We Read?
The Naive Reception
Words In a Mirror
What About Theory?
Risks
An Abyss
Notes
Chapter 5
A Poetics of Misencounters: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Of Machines and Writing
Streets and Commonplaces
The Flight
A Rivalry
Notes
Chapter 6
Is There Style Without Gender? Manuel Puig
The Politics of Winning
Culture and Consumption
The Pedagogical Moment
Fragments
Notes
Chapter 7
The Lucidity of Inaction: María Luisa Bombal
The Uncanniness of Women
Desire and Facts
Dead Women
Silence
Notes
Chapter 8 Closing the Book -- Dogspeech: José Donoso
Fear and Story-Telling
As Seen by a Hungry Dog
A Beautiful Face, Great Clothes
A Greyhound, a Yellow Dog, and Despair
Notes
Chapter 9
Overstaying My Welcome: Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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