5. Textual Epiphany: A Return to Bibliomancy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Translations xiii
6. 1. Introduction: Beyond the Aesthetics of Realism 1
7. 2. The Aesthetics of Excess: The Novel as Fibroma 13
8. 3. The Ethics of Androgyny: A Sexual Parable 28
9. 4. Culture as Nature: An American Practice of Reading and Writing 45
10. 5. Textual Epiphany: A Return to Bibliomancy 70
11. 6. Conclusion: The Henri Rousseau of the Latin American Boom 85
12. Notes 119
13. Works Cited 141
14. Index 147