University Press of America
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978-0-7618-6523-0 • Hardback • January 2015 • $80.00 • (£62.00)
978-0-7618-6524-7 • eBook • January 2015 • $76.00 • (£58.00)
Marco Luis Dorfsman is associate professor of Spanish and humanities at the University of New Hampshire. He has taught comparative literature and translation at various liberal arts colleges and universities in Mexico, Spain, and the United States.
AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Turns and Returns, Vueltas y Vueltas Chapter 2: The Inheritance of the Labyrinth Chapter 3: From the Subject to the Negative and Back: Paz’s Mexicans Chapter 4: The Ancient Quarrel between History and Poetry - The Lyric, Identity, and Modernity
- History, Difference, and Temporality
Chapter 5: Heads or Tails - Heads: Identity or Difference
- Tails: Poetry, Hybridity, Thought
Chapter 6: Sun Stone: Circling Back to the Threshold 1. First Turn2. Return on the Way to a Conclusion: The Threshold of SayingChapter 7: On the Field of Representation Index
Marco Dorfsman, offers unprecedented readings of Labyrinth of Solitude, The Bow and the Lyre, Sunstone, and other works and presents one of the first sustained theoretical analyses of the Mexican difference. He extends Paz’s dialogue with crucial philosophical and political trends of his period, reading him alongside figures such as Heidegger, Lyotard, and Derrida, and contributes to an elaboration of a poetics of temporality and inheritance.
— Brett Levinson, professor of comparative literature at Binghamton University
By rigorously examining the subtle interplay between culture, literature, and philosophy, Dorfsman puts forth an innovative and provocative interpretation of Octavio Paz’s contributions to understanding the Mexican twentieth century. . . . Dorfsman also discloses in Paz the glimmer of a new mode of thinking that can only be called post-literary.
— Patrick Dove, professor of Spanish at Indiana University