Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780934223614
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers; Spanish Novel And Short Story; Special Subjects In Literature; Fiction; Spanish; Literary Criticism; Spain; General; 20th century; History and criticism; Latin America; Postmodernism (Literature); Science in literature; Spanish American fiction
Description: "Beginning with the scientific travelers and travelogues of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book traces the relations between the discourse of science and the discourse of literature through the influence of the human sciences in the first half of the twentieth century, and on to that of the communication and information sciences, including the new multimedia technologies in the second half of our century.".

"This book seeks to elucidate both the historical and the present responses of a technologically dependent culture to the discourse of science and technology, as these responses are represented in its literature. Additionally, the book endeavors to analyze the mutual influences of science, technology, and literature in order to ascertain the degree to which literature does serve, and might serve, to transform the roles of technology in Latin American society."--BOOK JACKET.