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Book Description: University of Chicago press. Book Condition: New. New. Bookseller Inventory # 0822942283

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Book Description: University of Pittsburgh Press, United States, 2004. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 235 x 156 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. An intellectual tour de force from one of today's leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, "The Corpus Delicti" (The Body of Crime) is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the central role of crime in literature, in life, and in the life of the nation.Drawing her examples from canonical texts, popular novels, newspaper serials, and more, Josefina Ludmer captures the wide range of Argentine crime stories and detective fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She offers more than a mere genre study, examining the relationship of crime and punishment to the formation of law, the body, and the modern state, exposing the ways in which literature--both high art and mass culture--can help construct, not just represent, social reality.Covering a dazzling array of primary sources, social history, and cultural theory, this provocative work is also a structural masterpiece, challenging readers as it charts new roles for text and notes. In this redefined dialogue, the notes variously offer alternate views, additional insights, and, often, parallel commentaries. Glen Close's stylish translation captures the energy of Ludmer's prose--simultaneously subtle and daring--for English-language readers. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780822942283

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Book Description: University of Pittsburgh Press. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, The Corpus Delicti: A Manual of Argentine Fiction, Josefina Ludmer, Glen S. Close, An intellectual tour de force from a leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, this is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the central role of crime in literature, in life, and in the life of the nation. Bookseller Inventory # B9780822942283

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Book Description: University of Pittsburgh Press. Book Condition: New. An intellectual tour de force from one of today?s leading critics of Latin American literature and culture, The Corpus Delicti (The Body of Crime) is a manual of crime, a compendium of crime tales, and an extended meditation on the central role of crime in literature, in life, and in the life of the nation.Drawing her examples from canonical texts, popular novels, newspaper serials, and more, Josefina Ludmer captures the wide range of Argentine crime stories and detective fiction from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She offers more than a mere genre study, examining the relationship of crime and punishment to the formation of law, the body, and the modern state, exposing the ways in which literature?both high art and mass culture?can help construct, not just represent, social reality.Covering a dazzling array of primary sources, social history, and cultural theory, this provocative work is also a structural masterpiece, challenging readers as it charts new roles for text and notes. In this redefined dialogue, the notes variously offer alternate views, additional insights, and, often, parallel commentaries. Glen Close?s stylish translation captures the energy of Ludmer?s prose?simultaneously subtle and daring?for English-language readers."A brilliant and original book that traces the power of ?crime? to fuse and divide the entire social field. Written with a rare wit and humor, The Corpus Delicti draws impartially on every kind of Argentine crime story. . . . One of the few books I have read in which the footnotes are as entertaining as the text." ?Jean Franco, Columbia University Brand NEW unread book. Hard cover bound book. Bookseller Inventory # 9780822942283

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Book Description: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 394 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0822942283

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