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Lloyd Davies - Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Madness and Irrationality in Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture

Av Lloyd Davies

Del i serien Iberian & Latin American Studies

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This is the first monograph to consider the significance of madness and irrationality in both Spanish and Spanish American literature. It considers various definitions of madness and explores the often contrasting responses, both positive (figural madness as stimulus for literary creativity) and negative (clinical madness representing spiritual confinement and sterility). The concept of national madness is explored with particular reference to Argentina, where the country's vast expanses have been seen as conducive to madness, while the urban population of Buenos Aires is especially dependent on psychoanalytic therapy. The discussion considers both the work of lesser-known writers such as Nuria Amat, whose personal life is inflected by madness, and that of larger literary figures such as Jose Lezama Lima, whose poetic concepts are suffused with the irrational. The conclusion draws attention to the other side of reason as a source of possible originality in a world dominated by the tenets of logic and conventionalised thinking.
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Lloyd Hughes Davies is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Swansea University. His main area of interest is contemporary Spanish American literature, particularly the novels of Argentina and Colombia.

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“Drawing on Nietzsche’s comment that ‘Plato was speaking for the whole of humanity when he said: “From madness Greece has derived its greatest benefits,” and Virginia Woolf’s insight that ‘as an experience, madness is terrific,’ Lloyd Davies’s new book is a fantastically comprehensive study of madness and irrationality in Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. This is a cornucopia of madness with—as you might expect—examples of Quixotic madness, but we are also regaled with tales of clinical madness, political madness (the “locas” of the Plaza de Mayo), Baroque madness, cultural madness, linguistic madness, feminist madness, criminal madness, homosexual madness, existential madness, and even bookish madness. Full of original insight and penetrating readings!’

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