Author: Edith FishtinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Don Juan Valera, the Critic ...
Author: Edith FishtineThe Critic
Author: The Critic
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Juan Valera, by Cyrus DeCoster
Author: Cyrus Cole DeCosterPublisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Critic & Good Literature
Author: The Representation of Women in the Novels of Juan Valera
Author: Teresia Langford TaylorPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In The Representation of Women in the Novels of Juan Valera: A Feminist Critique, Teresia Taylor's text-oriented essay analyzes the role of major female characters in Valera's eight full-length novels. Giving equal attention to the less commonly studied novels, these are organized in four pairs based on similar representations of women (for example, Pepita Jimenez and Dona Luz compare two women who love "priests").
The Nation
Author: Pepita Jimenez: a Novel by Juan Valera
Author: Juan ValeraPublisher: Hispanic Classics
ISBN: 0856688851
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Juan Valera y Alcalá-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 Jiménez , long considered one of the best half dozen novels of 19th-century Spain. When it was first published in 1874, Pepita Jiménez 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 Jiménez 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.
Critic and Good Literature
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Pepita Jimenez: A Novel by Juan Valera
Author: Robert FedorchekPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800345054
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Juan Valera y Alcalá-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.