Erotic mysticism : subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose /

LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Erotic mysticism : subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose / Subversion and transcendence in Latin American Modernista prose by Nancy LaGreca. - Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Department of Romance Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (179 pages) - North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 310 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : erotic mysticism 1890s-1920s : "the worst moral stigma" -- The context of non-theistic erotic mysticism : positivist and Catholic discourses in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Latin America -- Theories of non-theistic mysticism in essayistic prose : Carlos Díaz Duffo (Mexico 1861-1941) and Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (Venezuela 1871-1927) -- Decadence under cover : resurrecting Resurrección (Colombia) by José María Rivas Groot -- Death and the feminine erotic : La Rosa Muerta (The dead rose; 1914) by Zoila Aurora Cáceres (Peru) -- A Byzantine manifesto on erotic pluralism : El Evangelio del amor (The gospel of love; 1922) by Enrique Gómez Carrillo -- Concluding thoughts : subversion, transcendence, and the ongoing quest for blissful unity.



9781469637914


Modernism (Literature)--Latin America.
Spanish American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Spanish American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Erotic literature, Spanish American--History and criticism.
Mysticism in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ6073 / .E768 2016