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This volume brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on
the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its
aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of the Spanish Republic and
the course of the Civil War, the authors have chosen to range in
turn over cinematic, literary and historical depictions of the era.
In addition, reactions elsewhere in Europe to the Spanish conflict
are examined; the role of the International Brigades is looked at
afresh; the fate of children displaced during the Civil War is
explored; and the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement is
revisited. The volume shows that to be any kind of soldier in the
armies of the Republic, or even to be seen as a Republican
sympathiser, was to become a "non-person" in the new order in Spain
under Franco, and sets what supporters of the Republic had to
endure within the wider European and international context of the
period. This book offers timely fresh insights into the failure of
the Spanish Republic and into a society that tried in vain to unite
its divided people during what was a seismic era in Spain's
history. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
This volume brings together new interdisciplinary perspectives on
the Spanish Civil War, its victims, its contentious ending, and its
aftermath. In exploring the slow demise of the Spanish Republic and
the course of the Civil War, the authors have chosen to range in
turn over cinematic, literary and historical depictions of the era.
In addition, reactions elsewhere in Europe to the Spanish conflict
are examined; the role of the International Brigades is looked at
afresh; the fate of children displaced during the Civil War is
explored; and the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement is
revisited. The volume shows that to be any kind of soldier in the
armies of the Republic, or even to be seen as a Republican
sympathiser, was to become a "non-person" in the new order in Spain
under Franco, and sets what supporters of the Republic had to
endure within the wider European and international context of the
period. This book offers timely fresh insights into the failure of
the Spanish Republic and into a society that tried in vain to unite
its divided people during what was a seismic era in Spain's
history. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito
Perez Galdos, is the subject of these new studies. The master of
the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Perez Galdos,
is the subject of New Galdos Studies, offered in memory of John
Varey, author of Galdos Studies, the foundational text for
contemporary Galdosian scholarship. Eamonn Rodgers describes
Galdos's early readership and reception; James Whiston illustrates
Galdos's creativity in Lo prohibido; Rhian Davies explores the
enrichment of the novelist's language in Torquemada en la Cruz;
Teresa Fuentes Peris demonstrates Galdos's radical critique of
dominant social assumptions in Fortunata y Jacinta; Alex Longhurst
deals with the representation of poverty in Misericordia while Lisa
Conde 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.
Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century
Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic
service with postings in Europe and the Americas. A serious student
of his own and foreign literatures, Valera wrote novels, short
stories, essays and literary criticism. Fluent in a number of
languages, he also translated Longus's Daphne and Chloe from Greek
into Spanish. The unifying thread of his creative work is "art for
art's sake," that is, beauty as the end and purpose of imaginative
literature, an ideal epitomised by Pepita Jimenez, long considered
one of the best half dozen novels of 19th-century Spain. When it
was first published in 1874, Pepita Jimenez became an instant
success. Translations abound, as do the number of editions, upwards
of fifteen, many of them annotated, some of them illustrated. It
tells of Luis de Vargas, a devout twenty-two-year-old seminarian
who has come home to visit with his father before entering the
priesthood. The storyline unfolds when he meets a comely
twenty-year-old widow named Pepita Jimenez and has his religious
calling put to the test. On the heels of a fictitious prologue,
Valera gives the reader multiple perspectives. The first part of
the novel is epistolary in form, letters that Luis writes to the
Dean, who is both his uncle and his mentor at the seminary, and
everything - people, places, and activities - is filtered through
his eyes. The second part reverts to the traditional all-seeing
narrator of the realist novel, while the third consists of letters
that Pedro de Vargas, Luis's father, writes to his brother the
Dean.
Fortunata y Jacinta is the magnum opus of Benito Pérez Galdós,
acknowledged in the field of Spanish letters as second only in
importance to Cervantes. This study is an analysis of the different
parts of the manuscript as "palimpsest," or layering of texts from
the early manuscript drafts of the work to its printed edition,
produced in successive stages to create a better version than the
last. The analysis seeks to lay bare important aspects of the
creative process of composition in the astounding cultural
phenomenon that is the nineteenth-century realist novel, assessing
in what ways any changes from earlier to later drafts may provide
an understanding of the genius of creation in this particular
literary form.
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