Los viajeros ingleses y la emergencia de la literatura argentina, 1820 - 1850:

"A solid examination of English travel literature and its impact on the development of an Argentine intelligentsia in the 19th century. Argues that certain images of national reality - the Pampa, the slaughterhouse, the gaucho on his horse - were transmitted from the accounts of English travele...

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Main Author: Prieto, Adolfo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:Spanish
Published: Buenos Aires Ed. Sudamericana 1996
Series:Colección Historia y cultura
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Summary:"A solid examination of English travel literature and its impact on the development of an Argentine intelligentsia in the 19th century. Argues that certain images of national reality - the Pampa, the slaughterhouse, the gaucho on his horse - were transmitted from the accounts of English travelers into the writings of Alberdi, Echeverría, Marmol, and Sarmiento, who went on to create a national literature"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.. - http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Physical Description:189 S.
ISBN:9500711346

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