La Parodia En La Nueva Novela Hispanoamericana (1960 1985)
Resumen del Libro
In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Sklodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel, its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel), its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers, and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in critical discourse, takes as its theoretical basis the works of the Russian Formalists and Linda Hutcheons theory of parody.
