Introduction The Density of Literary History

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. The Density of Literary History 1
5. Mariano Azuela 13
6. Criticism and Literature 47
7. Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines 55
8. No More Demons 65
9. The Two Latin American Avant-Gardes 77
10. Literary System and Social System in Spanish America 93
11. Literature and Social Class 109
12. The Literary System of Gauchesque Poetry 129
13. The Boom in Perspective 171
14. A Research into Ideology in Poetry (The Diptych Series of Simple Verses) 219
15. Narrative Technification 263
16. Literature within an Anthropological Framework 315
17. Appendix: Publishing History of the Essays in This Volume 325
18. Notes 329
19. Bibliography 365
20. Index 377