Author: Arnold M. PenuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Charity in the Novels of Galdós
Author: Arnold M. PenuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Charity in the Novels of Galdos [By] Arnold M. Penuel
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Author: Arnold M. PenuelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Jew in the Novels of Benito Perez Galdos
Author: Sara E. SchyfterPublisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729300506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A study of Galdós' Jewish characters and what they tell us about the place of Jews in C19th Spanish society and culture. Few Spanish novelists have dealt with the problem of religion and religious commitment more comprehensively than Benito Pérez Galdós. His lifelong preoccupation with man in search of transendence repeatedly led him to evaluate andcriticize the religious institutions that stifled rather than helped man in his search. In the Jews, Galdós saw a people who, though victimized by religious intolerance, managed to survive persecution and affirm an abiding faithin God. He created Jewish characters throughout his long literary career and therefore presents the most comprehensive portrait of Jews as they existed in the culture, the religion and fabric of C19th Spanish society.
An Aspect of Spiritualistic Naturalism in the Novels of B. P. Galdos
Author: Gilberto PaoliniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Galdós and Darwin
Author: T. E. BellPublisher: Tamesis Books
ISBN: 9781855661257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
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.
An Aspect of Spirirualistic Naturalism in the Novels of B. P. Galdos
Author: Literature and Money
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
At a time when the dull rationality of the money calculus seems to be making ground in every sphere, it is perhaps opportune to reopen the question of literature and its relations with a rationality defined according to the logic of economic exchange: what kinds of value flow from such a rationality and what possibilities of resistance are there if we happen not to like the model and its more rebarbative ideological implications? Historically, attempts to reduce the richness of human exchange to utilitarian or economic paradigms have met with counter-cultural expressions of dissent and defiance. And yet the search for an 'authentic community' outside the reifications and repressions of economic exchange presents its own ambiguities and pitfalls, since the attempt to ground value in other spheres can function ideologically to secure and legitimize the very values it seeks to oppose. This is especially true in literature and other expressions of high culture, where mobilizations of the aesthetic (or the textual) as a site of resistance to economic hegemony are frequently recuperated in advance by the dominant discourse. The essays collected here tend, then, to explore in various ways, not only the ideological implications of literary (or more broadly cultural) representations or constructions of economic exchange, but also the often complex mediations that such constructions enter into with different kinds of oppositional discourse.
The Christ Figure in the Novels of Pérez Galdós
Author: Rodolfo CardonaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jesus Christ in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Galdós
Author: Brian J. DendlePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194547
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The sheer volume of prolific Spanish novelist and playwright Benito Pérez Galdós's literary production has rendered overall assessment of his body of work all but impossible. The later volumes in his ambitious and popular Episodios nacionales series, in particular, have suffered from scholarly indifference. In this acclaimed study, Brian J. Dendle closely considers the twenty-six novels in this series written between 1898 and 1912. These episodios, Dendle contests, are artistically superior to the earlier volumes and offer a unique opportunity to establish the ideological profile of the mature Galdós.
Visions of Filth
Author: Teresa Fuentes PerisPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853237280
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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.