{"product_id":"reality-in-movement-maarten-van-delden-9780826501493","title":"Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual","description":"In the last couple of decades there has been a surge of interest in Octavio Paz's life and work, and a number of important books have been published on Paz. However, most of these books are of a biographical nature, or they examine Paz's role in the various intellectual initiatives he headed in Mexico, specifically the journals he founded. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eReality in Movement\u003c\/i\u003e looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Paz's career, including his engagement with the subversive, adversary strain in Western culture; his meditations on questions of cultural identity and intercultural contact; his dialogue with both leftist and conservative ideological traditions; his interest in feminism and psychoanalysis, and his theory of poetry. It concludes with a chapter on Octavio Paz as a literary character--a kind of reception study. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering a complex and nuanced portrait of Paz as a writer and thinker--as well as an understanding of the era in which he lived--\u003ci\u003eReality in Movement\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to students of Octavio Paz and of Mexican literature more generally, and to readers with an interest in the many significant literary, cultural, political, and historical topics Paz wrote about over the course of his long career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maarten Van Delden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826501494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826501493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2022","brand":"Maarten Van Delden","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982879359231,"sku":"9780826501493","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1fb6add9-f252-4251-b7fc-fa6eaf7d2704.jpg?v=1683263486","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reality-in-movement-maarten-van-delden-9780826501493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}