Pragmatic passions : melodrama and Latin American social narrative - Bush, Matthew, 1976- (Madrid : Iberoamericana ; Frankfurt am Main : Vervuert Verlag, 2014)
Stirring emotion, assessing progress -- Doña Bárbara or the complications of clear-cut melodrama -- Suffering and retribution : the politicized theatrics of El tungsteno -- What more can one man do? : disillusionment and conformity in El amor brujo -- Romance, intrigue, and more in Gabriela, cravo e canela -- Episodes of passion and remorse : the excesses of La muerte de Artemio Cruz -- And then... melodrama beyond the boom.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed April 30, 2019)
Keywords: Latin American literature -- History and criticism; Melodrama; Electronic books