Myth and archive : a theory of Latin American narrative /

This book offers a theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. It argues that the novel developed from the discourse of the law in the Spanish Empire during the sixteenth century, while many of the early historical documents con...

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Main Author: González Echevarría, Roberto
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Series:Cambridge studies in Latin American and Iberian literature.
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