Idle Fictions - The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926-1934, Expanded edition (Paperback, Expanded Ed)

The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Perez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated "a class war not between social classes but between literary classes." Concentrating on source material not widely available, Perez Firmat reconstructs the reception these novels received at the time of their publication, then develops a reading of them based on the intellectual context of this reception. A new preface and an appendix on vanguard biographies have been added to this paperback edition.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1993
Authors:	Gustavo Perez Firmat
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	200
Edition:	Expanded Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-1423-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-8223-1423-1
Barcode:	9780822314233

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