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Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Maarten Van Delden

Drawing from the fiction, literary essays, and political journalism, van Delden places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America.
Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America

Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America

Maarten Van Delden

The product of a unique collaboration between a literary critic (Van Delden) and a political scientist (Grenier), this book looks at the relationship between literature and politics in Latin America, a region where these two domains exist ...
Annals of Scholarship

Annals of Scholarship

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MAARTEN VAN DELDEN THE FASCINATION WHICH certain Latin American writers have felt for the civilization of ancient Greece exemplifies the pull exercised by an idea of universality. It may well be that notions of universality, or centrality, ...
Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character

Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character

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Transmutations of Darwin in Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel Maarten van Delden Two Versions of Darwinism Darwin's theory of the origin of species opens up two very different perspectives on the relationship between human beings and the other ...
Caribbean Interfaces

Caribbean Interfaces

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The Museum and the Opera-House: Modernity and Identity in Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos Maarten van Delden Rice University The relationship between Latin America and Europe is a constant theme in the Latin American ( and ...
Dispositio

Dispositio

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Maarten Van Delden. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity. Nashville, Tennessee: vanderbilt University Press, 1998. 262 pp. In this overview of Carlos Fuentes's fiction, literary essays, and political writings from the 1950s to the present, ...
The Afterlife Imagery in Luke's Story of the Rich Man and ...

The Afterlife Imagery in Luke's Story of the Rich Man and ...

Outi Lehtipuu

Bremer, Jan Maarten. “Death and Immortality in Some Greek Poems.” Pp. 109– 24 in Jan Maarten Bremer, Theo P.J. van den Hout & Rudolph Peters (eds.), Hidden Futures: Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, ...
Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story

J. Maarten Troost

Follow in the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson with J. Maarten Troost, the bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals. Readers and critics alike adore J. Maarten Troost for his signature wry and witty take on the adventure memoir.
I Was Told There'd Be Sexbots: Travels through the Future

I Was Told There'd Be Sexbots: Travels through the Future

J. Maarten Troost

One day, J. Maarten Troost looked up from the book he was reading, a novel about civilization’s collapse.
The Sex Lives Of Cannibals

The Sex Lives Of Cannibals

J Maarten Troost

Maarten Troost does just that, setting up as a devil-may-care islander while his girlfriend, Sylvia, gets to work on saving the planet, or at least a little part of it on an end-of-the-world atoll, Tarawa.
Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context: Ancient ...

Proclus' Commentary on the Cratylus in Context: Ancient ...

Robbert Maarten van den Berg

38 I owe this observation to Riccardo Chiaradonna. 39 The way in which the original etymology has been modiÀed (, soul, has been replaced by , intellect) betrays Neoplatonic inÁuences. For a Neoplatonist, real μ is the knowledge of the ...
Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 17th ...

Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 17th ...

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... Papers Andrew Butterfield, Clemens Grelck, Frank Huch. Proof Tool Support for Explicit Strictness Marko van Eekelen and Maarten de Mol Institute for Computing and Information Sciences Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands ...
Mycoheterotrophy: The Biology of Plants Living on Fungi

Mycoheterotrophy: The Biology of Plants Living on Fungi

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Taxonomy and Classification Vincent S.F.T. Merckx, John V. Freudenstein, Jonathan Kissling, Maarten J.M. Christenhusz, Raymond E. Stotler, Barbara Crandall-Stotler, Norman Wickett, Paula J. Rudall, Hiltje Maas-van de Kamer, and Paul ...
Implementation of Functional Languages: 14th International ...

Implementation of Functional Languages: 14th International ...

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Make-a program for maintaining computer programs. Software - Practice and Experience, 9(4):255–65, 1979. 7. Maarten de Mol, Marko van Eekelen, and Rinus Plasmeijer. Sparkle: A functional theorem prover. In Markus Mohnen Thomas Arts ...
Walter Van Beirendonck: de controversieelste van de ...

Walter Van Beirendonck: de controversieelste van de ...

Agnes Goyvaerts

Chronologisch en op interviews gebaseerd verslag van de totstandkoming van 43 collecties van de Antwerpse modeontwerper.
Artificial Intelligence Techniques: A Comprehensive Catalogue

Artificial Intelligence Techniques: A Comprehensive Catalogue

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... John Hallam, Mike Harris, Luis Jenkins, Helen Lowe, Seán Matthews, Santiago Negrete, Nicolas Nicolov, Mary-Angela Papalaskaris, Dave Plummer, Maarten van Someren, Andrew Stevens, Millie Tupman and Toby Walsh, – John Taylor, ...
Facing the Future, Reviving the Past: A Study of Social ...

Facing the Future, Reviving the Past: A Study of Social ...

John Kleinen

Many members of the Van Cong patrilineage belonged to the "basic families": Van Cong Diu, Van Cong Duong, Van Cong Nhiem, Van Cong Giau, Van Cong Xuyen and his daughter Van Thi Thu. Most were all in their twenties around 1956 , ...
Kinderen houden niet van krokodillen / druk 2: requiem van ...

Kinderen houden niet van krokodillen / druk 2: requiem van ...

Carine Hutsebaut

Beschrijving van een aantal gevallen van seksueel misbruik van kinderen en kindermoorden, met name in België.
Braby's Natal Directory, Including Zululand, Griqualand East ...

Braby's Natal Directory, Including Zululand, Griqualand East ...

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Van Flensburg, С. J. J., 23 Brettanwoods Ave. Van Rensburg, C. J. J., 5 Flamingo Grove, YWP Van Rensburg, 0., 210 Grosvenor Cit. Van Rensburg, E. G., 44 Hallfax Rd., WL. Van Rensburg, F., 89 Roland Chapman Dve., MC Van Rensburg , ...
Drug Use in Prisons

Drug Use in Prisons

Shewan

DEVELOPMENT OF HIV/AIDS POLICY IN THE DUTCH PRISON SYSTEM Maarten van Doorninck and Wouter de jong The development of HIV/AIDS policy in the Dutch prison system covers a period of approximately ten years. It originated in ...
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the ...

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the ...

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... hoven) Van Bunschoten; Teunis and Elizabeth (Van der Burgh) Van Bunschoten; Henry and Mary (Jackson) Van Benschoten, and Richard and Catherine Ann (Taylor) Van Benschoten, the grandparents of William Henry Van Benschoten.
Red de vrije markt: de terugkeer van Milton Friedman

Red de vrije markt: de terugkeer van Milton Friedman

Johan Van Overtveldt

Ten onrechte wordt Friedman opgevoerd als de immorele vader van het wilde kapitalisme. Johan Van Overtveldt beschrijft met veel verve de economische geschiedenis van de afgelopen eeuw aan de hand van het leven en werk van Friedman.
The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the ...

The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the ...

George Derby

... hoven) Van Bunschoten; Teunis and Elizabeth (Van der Burgh) Van Bunschoten; Henry and Mary (Jackson) Van Benschoten, and Richard and Catherine Ann (Taylor) Van Benschoten, the grandparents of William Henry Van Benschoten.
Pushing the limits: het leven van Keith Bakker

Pushing the limits: het leven van Keith Bakker

Leon Verdonschot

Van de VS naar Amsterdam, van de wereld van rock-`n-roll naar dealen op de Zeedijk; van de glamour naar de goot en van de hel weer terug naar de aarde: Pushing the limits is het spannende en inspirerende verhaal van Keith Bakkers strijd ...
The Hopper family genealogy: descendants of Andries ...

The Hopper family genealogy: descendants of Andries ...

Maria Jean Pratt Hopper

1 Sep 1815] see #265 Van Houten, Maria [Garret J. Hopper #1281] Van Houten, Martha [John Demarest Jr. #800] Van Houten, ... 245, 246 Van Orden ~ see also Van Norden Van Orden, Cornelius [Hannah Hopper #137] Van Orden, Elizabeth  ...
De Batavia te water

De Batavia te water

Vibeke Roeper

Verslag van de rampzalige reis van het VOC-retourschip "Batavia" in 1628-'29, de opgraving van het wrak en de bouw van een replica van dit schip in 1985-'95.
Perspektief

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zijn van Jean Sagne die in de ontwikkeling van het werk van Nadar een aanpassing aan de 'anonieme' smaak van het grote publiek ziet, van Jean Claude Le- magny die een aantal boeken over anonieme fotografie met elkaar vergelijkt, van ...
Acidic Precipitation: Soils, Aquatic Processes, and Lake ...

Acidic Precipitation: Soils, Aquatic Processes, and Lake ...

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Van Dam, H., G. Suurmond, and C. J. F. TerBraak. 1981. Hydrobiologia 83:425- 459. Van Dam, H., B. van Geel, A. van der Wijk, J. F. M. Geelen, R. van der Heijden, and M. D. Dickman. 1988. Rev Paleobot Palynol 55:273-316. Vaughan, H. H. ...
Uit de schilderswereld: Nederlandse kunstschilders in de ...

Uit de schilderswereld: Nederlandse kunstschilders in de ...

Chris Stolwijk

De sociaal-economische positie van de kunstschilders in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw, de professionalisering van hun beroep en de opbloei van de kunsthandel.

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