Abstract

KURZ, Andreas. The transformation of femenine stereotypes in Mexican modernism in the wake of an adaptation of The Portrait of Dorian Gray. Lit. mex [online]. 2011, vol.22, n.2, pp.29-43. ISSN 2448-8216.

This paper contributes new elements for the reading of the modernist narrative of Mexico, specifically that of Amado Nervo and Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera. The approach is realized from an intertextual perspective with certain canonical models from turn-of-the-century French and English narrative. In the case of Nervo, elements are provided for the analysis of a book rarely studied: Cartas de mujeres; while with Gutiérrez Nájera the well-discussed first modernist novel Por donde se sube al cielo is analyzed.

Keywords : Modernism; turn-of-the-century Mexican novel; Amado Nervo; Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera.