Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses

Reynolds employs a material culture studies approach by reading the cronica through journalistic practices, while also drawing from sociological and poststructuralist theorists such as Deleuze and Bourdieu. His take on the cronica modernista is a valuable contribution to cronica studies that revises some of the current analytical commonplaces on the topic...[T]his is an ambitious book that steers clear from easy aners in favor of nuance, tension and even paradox. Its ambitious argument in favor of reintegrating the cronica into the world of turn-of0the-century journalism is provocative yet persuasive...[T]his is a book that puts forward excellent claims about the history of journalism and the always slippery definition of both the cronica and the modernista movement. Textos Revistas: Revista de Estudios sobre la Cronica LatinoAmericana