The author in the office : narrative writing in twentieth-century Argentina and Uruguay /: narrative writing in twentieth-century Argentina and Uruguay. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Narrative writing in twentieth-century Argentina and Uruguay; Narrative writing in 20th century Argentina and Uruguay
• Further Information: Note: Paul R. Jordan.
• Other Names: Dr, Jordan, Paul
• Contents: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. Introduction: Writing in and of the Era of the Typewriter; 2. Office Life in 1920s' Buenos Aires and Montevideo: Visions of Purgatory; 3. The 1930s: From Social Criticism to Creative Disillusion; 4. Mario Benedetti: Uruguay, the Office Republic; 5. 1940s' Argentina: From Alienation to Bureaucratic Nightmare; 6. Argentine Bureaucracy from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Enemy within; 7. Uruguay from the 1960s: Bureaucracies of the Absurd; Conclusion: Globalisation and the Writer-functionary; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY : Tamesis
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (237 pages)
• Subjects: 860.9/9820904; Argentine prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Uruguayan prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- Argentina; Literature and society -- Uruguay; Social change in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese; Argentine prose literature; Literature and society; Social change in literature; Uruguayan prose literature; Letterkunde; Spaans; Ambtenaren; Argentina; Uruguay; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846154478; 1846154472
• Related ISBNs: 1855661268
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.