Author: Kay EnglerPublisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Volume 184 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
The Structure of Realism
Author: Kay EnglerPublisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Volume 184 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
The Novels of Benito Perez Galdos
Author: P. A. BlyDissertation Abstracts International
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ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Galdos's Novel of the Historical Imagination
Author: Peter BlyPublisher: Liverpool : F. Cairns
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific novelist, and ranks with Balzac and Dickens as a chronicler of nineteenth-century society. His 46 historical novels (the episodios nacionales) dealt with the major events of Spanish history in the first half of the nineteenth century. From about 1870 he began to publish contemporary social novels, and in 1881, with La desheredada, he inaugurated what he himself saw as a new style of writing. The novels from 1881 to 1915, his serie contemporánea, are the subject of this study. Professor Bly argues that in them Galdós created a special type of historical novel which, by drawing subtle parallels between fictional action and political events, allegorised the political history of the recent Spanish past. In the earlier novels of the series, the relationship between the fiction and its contemporary background has an allegorical dimension. Historical detail both provides a precise setting for the narrative, and indicates that the fiction represents the national reality, while the leading fictional characters symbolize public figures. The later novels, however, increasingly show disenchantment with Spanish politics, reflected in a diminishing use of historical material and in the emergence of characters who renounce social involvement in favour of the almost mystical pursuit of Christian values. In arguing for this approach to the serie contemporánea, Peter Bly offers perceptive interpretations of all the novels, but devotes particular attention to the masterpieces La de Bringas, Fortunata y Jacinta and Miau. Because the novels relate to the major political trends and events of the period, a brief historical survey of the years 1860-1910 is provided as an appendix.
Comprehensive Dissertation Index
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Libido Into Literature
Author: Clark M. ZlotchewPublisher: Millefleurs
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Saragossa
Author: Benito Pérez GaldósPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Saragossa" (A Story of Spanish Valor) by Benito Pérez Galdós. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Benito Peréz Galdós and the Creative Process
Author: Walter Thomas PattisonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816658463
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Benito Perez Galdos and the Creative Process was first published in 1954. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Most critics would rank Benito Perez Galdos second only to Cervantes among the great novelists of Spain. However, in spite of the esteem in which he is generally held, Galdos has been the subject of relatively few scholarly studies. Professor Pattison, by an analysis of two of Galdos' novels, attempts to reconstruct the creative processes that were involved in the writing of these novels. This is the first time that such a critical approach has been used in the field of Spanish fiction and the resulting study is significant not only to Spanish scholars but to all students of literature seeking further insights into the fascinating and still elusive creative process. Professor Pattison analyzes the novels Gloria, published in 1877, and Marianela,which was published the following year. Both are stories of contemporary life, the former having as its theme the conflict between noble religion and the fanaticism of individual religious sects, and the latter presenting a story of tragic love interwoven with the social problem of the responsibilities of the rich toward the poor. In tracking down the sources of ideas, characters, plots, and viewpoints that emerge in these novels, Professor Pattison worked first-hand in Galdos' personal library in Madrid. From the notes and markings in the books and from other intimate observations, the scholar-detective put his finger on many of the original sources that contributed to Galdos' artistic creations and identified the prototypes for fictional characters among persons Galdos knew.
Conflicting Realities
Author: Peter B. GoldmanPublisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729301589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Essays surveying compositional practices and analytical approaches to music from 1950 to date.
Author: Osvaldo E. Orraca