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The Spanish novel in a turbulent century. This collection of
studies by eighteen prominent theorists and critics offers a
diverse panorama of the modern Spanish novel seen through the prism
of Spain's recent political, cultural and ideological history. It
considers the development of the novel as a social mirror and as a
changing literary form, torn between the tradition of stern realism
and the aesthetics of rupture affecting all Western literature from
the Avant-Garde to the Postmodern age. While some essays emphasise
the Spanish cultural context and canonical writers, others are of a
broader nature, grouping lesser-known writers under certain
literary tendencies: the metaphysical novel, the urban novel,
recuperative accounts of the Civil War, feminine first-person
narrations, and the rise of the popular detective, historical, and
erotic novels. Three studies address the resurgence of the Catalan,
Basque and Galician novel and their departure from a poetics of
identity to one of global concerns. Interdisciplinary approaches
address the reciprocal impacts of literature and cinema, and the
effects of the marketplace on the consumption of fiction are not
forgotten. The Companion provides ample bibliographies and a
valuable chronology, while all titles and quotations are translated
into English. Contributors: Marta E. Altisent, Katarzyna Olga
Beilin, Ramon Buckley, Jose F. Colmeiro, Stacey Dolgin Casado,
Sebastiaan Faber, David K. Herzberger, Carlos Alex Longhurst,
Kathleen N. March, Cristina Martinez-Carazo, Alfredo Martinez
Exposito, Nina L. Molinaro, Gonzalo Navajas, Mari Jose Olaziregi,
Janet D. Perez, Randolph D. Pope, Josep Miquel Sobrer, H. Rosi
Song.
Surveys the thought and literary work of a towering figure in
twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. As a
novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel
de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific
writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural
and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about
existence and identity (both individual and national).Widely
recognised and translated during his lifetime, he was an
inescapably canonical figure on university syllabi across Europe
and the Americas for many years after his death, and still appears
on many curricula. In this Companion, a range of distinguished
scholars with very different approaches both survey Unamuno's work
chronologically, analysing major developments and turning points or
breaks as well as continuities, and further study key themes and
preoccupations across his prolific narrative, theatrical and essay
output. All contributors offer not just incisive discussion of the
texts or topics studied, but also a balanced overview of issues and
debates arising in Unamuno studies. Julia Biggane is senior
lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She is
a general editor of theBulletin of Spanish Studies, and director of
the Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and
Comparative Literary History at the University of Aberdeen. John
Macklin was Professor of Hispanic Studies and Head of the School of
Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. In
1994, he was made a Commander of the Order of Isabel la Catolica by
King Juan Carlos of Spain.
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.
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