Glen S Close
Biographic Data
| ID | 161382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glen S Close |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glen S |
| FAMILY NAME | Close |
| SIGNATURE | CLOSE G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-3933-2523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Redemptive Mortification in Felipe Trigo’s La Altísima (1907) and Las posadas del amor (1908)
In the early twentieth century, Felipe Trigo was considered the founder of the Spanish erotic novel and Spain’s most widely read and critically debated writer. He advocated a radical feminism, arguing strongly that women should enjoy full equality in education, work and sexual relations. This article explores an acute contradiction between Trigo’s emancipatory discourse and the misogynist logic and androcentric narrative mechanics of his most wid…
Screening Slaughter. The Repressed Politics and Troubled Aesthetics of Gabriel Serra Argüello’s La Parka (2013)
This article operates on two premises: 1) that contemporary practices of intensive industrial livestock farming are producing catastrophic ecological effects, and 2) that, in the capitalist drive for maximum productive efficiency and the absence of effectively enforced animal-welfare legislation, industrial meat producers currently inflict atrocious abuses on animals on a historically unprecedented scale. Taking a cue from Michael Pollan’s propos…
Corpse Photography in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella distante and Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar
This article considers corpse photography in novels by Bolaño (1996) and Rivera Garza (1999) and argues, following the ideas of Elizabeth Bronfen, that it serves male characters as a technique for the disavowal of two enigmas that permanently threaten the male subject: death and femininity. Parallels are drawn with necropornographic precedents in the novela negra and with contemporary Post-Boom novels by Diamela Eltit and Tomás Eloy Martínez. Art…
Antinovela negra: Cristina Rivera Garza’s La muerte me da and the Critical Contemplation of Violence in Contemporary Mexico
Antinovela negra:Cristina Rivera Garza's La muerte me da and the Critical Contemplation of Violence in Contemporary Mexico Glen S. Close A recent boom in criminal violence has transformed social life in many parts of Latin America. According to homicide statistics published by the United Nations in 2012, eight of the world's ten most violent countries are located in Latin America or the Caribbean ("Burn-out"). In the United States, the history of…
Open up a few corpses: Autopsied cadavers in the post-boom
Antinovela negra: Cristina Rivera Garza’s La muerte me da and the Critical Contemplation of Violence in Contemporary Mexico
Antinovela negra:Cristina Rivera Garza's La muerte me da and the Critical Contemplation of Violence in Contemporary Mexico Glen S. Close A recent boom in criminal violence has transformed social life in many parts of Latin America. According to homicide statistics published by the United Nations in 2012, eight of the world's ten most violent countries are located in Latin America or the Caribbean ("Burn-out"). In the United States, the history of…
Open up a few corpses: Autopsied cadavers in the post-boom
Corpse Photography in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella distante and Cristina Rivera Garza's Nadie me verá llorar
This article considers corpse photography in novels by Bolaño (1996) and Rivera Garza (1999) and argues, following the ideas of Elizabeth Bronfen, that it serves male characters as a technique for the disavowal of two enigmas that permanently threaten the male subject: death and femininity. Parallels are drawn with necropornographic precedents in the novela negra and with contemporary Post-Boom novels by Diamela Eltit and Tomás Eloy Martínez. Art…
Antinovela negra: Cristina Rivera Garza’s La muerte me da and the Critical Contemplation of Violence in Contemporary Mexico
Antinovela negra:Cristina Rivera Garza's La muerte me da and the Critical Contemplation of Violence in Contemporary Mexico Glen S. Close A recent boom in criminal violence has transformed social life in many parts of Latin America. According to homicide statistics published by the United Nations in 2012, eight of the world's ten most violent countries are located in Latin America or the Caribbean ("Burn-out"). In the United States, the history of…
Screening Slaughter. The Repressed Politics and Troubled Aesthetics of Gabriel Serra Argüello’s La Parka (2013)
This article operates on two premises: 1) that contemporary practices of intensive industrial livestock farming are producing catastrophic ecological effects, and 2) that, in the capitalist drive for maximum productive efficiency and the absence of effectively enforced animal-welfare legislation, industrial meat producers currently inflict atrocious abuses on animals on a historically unprecedented scale. Taking a cue from Michael Pollan’s propos…
Redemptive Mortification in Felipe Trigo’s La Altísima (1907) and Las posadas del amor (1908)
In the early twentieth century, Felipe Trigo was considered the founder of the Spanish erotic novel and Spain’s most widely read and critically debated writer. He advocated a radical feminism, arguing strongly that women should enjoy full equality in education, work and sexual relations. This article explores an acute contradiction between Trigo’s emancipatory discourse and the misogynist logic and androcentric narrative mechanics of his most wid…
Art (4 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Spanish Culture and Identity (2 works)