TY - BOOK AU - Ochoa,John A. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity AV - PQ7207.N37 O34 2004 U1 - 860.9/353 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Mexican prose literature KW - History and criticism KW - Failure (Psychology) in literature KW - National characteristics, Mexican, in literature KW - Literature and history KW - Mexico KW - Historiography KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index; Education and entropy in Bernal Diaz del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- Jose Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo Gomez-Pena : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3443300 ER -