1973, ISBN: 0292703074

American and British Writers in Mexico is the study that laid the foundation upon which subsequent examinations of Mexico's impact upon American and British letters have built. Chosen by … More...

American and British Writers in Mexico is the study that laid the foundation upon which subsequent examinations of Mexico's impact upon American and British letters have built. Chosen by the Mexican government to be placed, in translation, in its public libraries, the book was also referenced by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz in an article in the New Yorker, "Reflections-Mexico and the United States." Drewey Wayne Gunn demonstrates how Mexican experiences had a singular impact upon the development of English writers, beginning with early British explorers who recorded their impressions for Hakluyt's Voyages, through the American Beats, who sought to escape the strictures of American culture.? Among the 140 or so writers considered are Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Langston Hughes, D. H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Katherine Anne Porter, Hart Crane, Malcolm Lowry, John Steinbeck, Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow, William Carlos Williams, Robert Lowell, Ray Bradbury, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac.? Gunn finds that, while certain elements reflecting the Mexican experience-colors, landscape, manners, political atmosphere, a sense of the alien-are common in their writings, the authors reveal less about Mexico than they do about themselves. A Mexican sojourn often marked the beginning, the end, or the turning point in a literary career. The insights that this pioneering study provide into ou criticism and theory,europe,history,history and criticism,literature and fiction,movements and periods,wales History, Univ of Texas Pr<

1974, ISBN: 0292703074

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780292703070], [PU: Austin, University Of Texas Press [1974]], History|Latin America |Mexico, Literary Criticism|American|General, Literary Criticism|European|English, Irish, Scott… More...

[EAN: 9780292703070], [PU: Austin, University Of Texas Press [1974]], History|Latin America |Mexico, Literary Criticism|American|General, Literary Criticism|European|English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Jacket, Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 301 pages; Description: xii, 301 p. 23 cm. Bibliography: p. [259]-287. Subjects: American literature --Mexican influences. English literature --Mexican influences. Mexico --In literature. 1 Kg.<

1974, ISBN: 9780292703070

Austin, University Of Texas Press [1974], 1974. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and s… More...

Austin, University Of Texas Press [1974], 1974. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 301 pages; Description: xii, 301 p. 23 cm. Bibliography: p. [259]-287. Subjects: American literature --Mexican influences. English literature --Mexican influences. Mexico --In literature.., Austin, University Of Texas Press [1974], 1974<

1974, ISBN: 0292703074

Hardcover

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1973, ISBN: 9780292703070

Hardcover book. 301 pages. Published by University of Texas Press (1974) Media > Book, [PU: University of Texas Press]