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Author : Linda M. Willem
Publisher : Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Sesquicentennial Tribute to Galdós, 1843-1993 written by Linda M. Willem and published by Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 1993 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teresa Fuentes Peris
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853237181
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Visions of Filth written by Teresa Fuentes Peris and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how notions of deviancy and social control are dramatized in the novels of the late nineteenth-century Spanish realist author Benito Pérez Galdós. Galdós’s treatment of prostitutes, alcoholics, beggars and vagrants is studied within the context of the socio-cultural and medical debates circulating during the period. Drawing on Foucault’s very specific conceptualization of the idea of control through discourses, the book analyzes how Galdós’s novels interacted with contemporary debates on poverty and deviancy – notably, discourses on hygiene, domesticity and philanthropy. It is proposed that Galdós’s view of marginal social groups was much more open-minded, shrewd and liberal than the often inflexible pronouncements made by contemporary professional voices.
Author : Nicholas Grenville Round
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855660861
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book New Galdós Studies written by Nicholas Grenville Round and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Pérez Galdós, is the subject of these new studies. The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Pérez Galdós, is the subject of New Galdós Studies, offered in memory of John Varey, author of Galdós Studies, the foundational text for contemporary Galdosian scholarship. Eamonn Rodgers describes Galdós's early readership and reception; James Whiston illustrates Galdós's creativity in Lo prohibido; Rhian Davies explores the enrichment of the novelist's language in Torquemada en la Cruz; Teresa Fuentes Peris demonstrates Galdós's radical critique of dominant social assumptions in Fortunata y Jacinta; Alex Longhurst deals with the representation of poverty in Misericordia while Lisa Condé detects a feminist intention in Tristana; Eric Southworth finds rich cultural and spiritual allusion in the same work; Nichols Round relates the deaths of children in the Torquemada novels and Angel Guerra to end-of-century ideological concerns.
Author : Louise Ciallella
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756638
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Quixotic Modernists written by Louise Ciallella and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quixotic Modernists gives close readings of two novels by two little-studied writers of the early twentieth century in Spain, Felipe Trigo's Las ingenuas (1901) and Maria Martinez Sierra's Tu eres la paz (1906), in relation to the canonical Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. This study shows the modern message (regarding gender), and modernist qualities of the prose of these works. Included are discussions of Quijote intertexts, proverbial language and tactics, the angel and the mujer-nina, flower, water, and animal imagery, and visual arts in relation to gender definition. Also included are contemporary responses to the novels and material about the authors' lives and Spain's social conditions in the early twentieth century. Quixotic Modernists integrates these themes into a study of the novelization of difficulties in transforming contemporary gender and class roles. In all three authors' works, this process of change in roles for both men and women becomes a quixotic enterprise, in which artists as/and characters search to reconnect with an elusive material, social body.
Author : Noël Valis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300152345
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Sacred Realism written by Noël Valis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.
Author : T. E. Bell
Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855661257
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Galdós and Darwin written by T. E. Bell and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito Pérez Galdós. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito Pérez Galdós would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Galdós throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Galdós's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Galdós and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century. T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University.
Author : Peter Anthony Bly
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572309
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Wisdom of Eccentric Old Men written by Peter Anthony Bly and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bly's principal revelation is that Galdós deliberately and consistently used this secondary type to emphasize the significance of the major plot developments and to underline the strengths or weaknesses of principal characters. In filling these roles the eccentric old men develop from comic shallow types into more complex secondary characters, men of insight and wisdom, who occupy a pivotal position in the novels.
Author : Hal L. Boudreau
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753705
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (537 download)
Download or read book Intertextual Pursuits written by Hal L. Boudreau and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together twelve essays that attest to the continuing viability of intertextuality, a widely recognized by-product of a cosmic readjustment in thinking about the nature and boundaries of texts. All the contributors to this collection are well versed in the theoretical implications of intertextuality. Their essays give repeated evidence that intertextuality is itself dynamically intertextual and that it is as endlessly fruitful as its myriad applications. The essays further demonstrate that, whether theoretically in fashion or out of it, whether seen as rhetorical exercises, ideological statements, or philosophical meditations, intertextual pursuits remain the paramount adventure in the literary-critical enterprise.
Author : Harriet Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826271
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel written by Harriet Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.
Author : Travis Landry
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804424
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Subversive Seduction written by Travis Landry and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man--and in the decades since--about the subjugation of women. If female choice is a key component of evolutionary success, what impact does the constraint of women's choices have on society? The elaborate courtship plots of 19th century Spanish novels, with their fixation on suitors and selectors, rivalry, and seduction, were attempts to grapple with the question of female agency in a patriarchal society. By reading Darwin through the lens of the Spanish realist novel and vice versa, Travis Landry brings new insights to our understanding of both: while Darwin's theories have often been seen as biologically deterministic, Landry asserts that Darwin's theory of sexual selection was characterized by an open ended dynamic whose oxymoronic emphasis on "passive" female choice carries the potential for revolutionary change in the status of women.
Author : Thomas R. Franz
Publisher : Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Niebla Inexplorada written by Thomas R. Franz and published by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward H. Friedman
Publisher : Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Cervantes in the Middle written by Edward H. Friedman and published by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is # 26 in the series "Documentacion cervantina."
Author : Leon Burnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Word in Time written by Leon Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Moss Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Myth and Meaning written by Edith Moss Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the three authors studied, Ana María Matute, Carmen Martín Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Soliño studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Soliño's book opens with a chapter that traces the historical development of the fairy tale genre, examines their didactic intent, and critiques the images of women in fairy tales. The second chapter explores the manners by which fairy tales were used as a tool for indoctrination during the formative years of the three authors under consideration. These introductory chapters are followed by individual chapters devoted to Martín Gaite, Matute, and Tusquets in which Soliño explores the connections between the literature these authors published for children and the novels they penned for an adult readership.
Author : Denise DuPont
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756386
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Realism as Resistance written by Denise DuPont and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fluid boundaries between realism and romanticism, while considering this oscillation between discourses as the legacy of the Quijote to the nineteenth-century Spanish novel. Furthermore, there are studies of characters who act as authors in Benito Perez Galdos's first series of Episodios Nacionales, Pio Baroja's La lucha por la vida, and Leopoldo Alas (Clarin)'s La Regenta. For many realists, romanticism has negative associations: quixotism, exaggeration, impracticality, and femininity or effeminacy.
Author : Susan Carvalho
Publisher : Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modernisms and Modernities written by Susan Carvalho and published by Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : April A. Overstreet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Uses of the Past written by April A. Overstreet and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
