Author: Mary Eleanor MaulePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Modernism (Christian theology)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Modernismo in Two Spanish American Novelists
Author: Mary Eleanor MaulePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Modernism (Christian theology)
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Modernismo, Modernity and the Development of Spanish American Literature
Author: Cathy L. JradePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779747
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Modernismo arose in Spanish American literature as a confrontation with and a response to modernizing forces that were transforming Spanish American society in the later nineteenth century. In this book, Cathy L. Jrade undertakes a full exploration of the modernista project and shows how it provided a foundation for trends and movements that have continued to shape literary production in Spanish America throughout the twentieth century. Jrade opens with a systematic consideration of the development of modernismo and then proceeds with detailed analyses of works-poetry, narrative, and essays-that typified and altered the movement's course. In this way, she situates the writing of key authors, such as Rubén Darío, José Martí, and Leopoldo Lugones, within the overall modernista project and traces modernismo's influence on subsequent generations of writers. Jrade's analysis reclaims the power of the visionary stance taken by these creative intellectuals. She firmly abolishes any lingering tendency to associate modernismo with affectation and effete elegance, revealing instead how the modernistas' new literary language expressed their profound political and epistemological concerns.
The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Author: Andrew ReynoldsPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611484693
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén Darío, Reynolds argues that extra-textual elements – such as temporality, the material formats of the newspaper and book, and editorial influence – animate the modernista movement’s literary ambitions and aesthetic ideology. Thus, instead of being stripped of an esteemed place in the literary sphere due to participation in the market-based newspaper industry, journalism actually brought modernismo closer to the writers’ desired artistic autonomy. Reynolds uncovers an original philosophical and sociological dimension of the literary forms that govern modernista studies, situating literary journalism of the movement within historical, economic and temporal contexts. Furthermore, he demonstrates that journalism of the movement was eventually consecrated in book form, revealing modernista intentionality for their mass-produced, seemingly utilitarian journalistic articles. The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality, and Material Culture thereby enables a better understanding of how the material textuality of the crónica impacts its interpretation and readership.
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
Author: Raymond Leslie WilliamsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292706705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Spanish American novels of the Boom period (1962-1967) attracted a world readership to Latin American literature, but Latin American writers had already been engaging in the modernist experiments of their North American and European counterparts since the turn of the twentieth century. Indeed, the desire to be "modern" is a constant preoccupation in twentieth-century Spanish American literature and thus a very useful lens through which to view the century's novels. In this pathfinding study, Raymond L. Williams offers the first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century. Using the desire to be modern as his organizing principle, he divides the century's novels into five periods and discusses the differing forms that "the modern" took in each era. For each period, Williams begins with a broad overview of many novels, literary contexts, and some cultural debates, followed by new readings of both canonical and significant non-canonical novels. A special feature of this book is its emphasis on women writers and other previously ignored and/or marginalized authors, including experimental and gay writers. Williams also clarifies the legacy of the Boom, the Postboom, and the Postmodern as he introduces new writers and new novelistic trends of the 1990s.
A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo
Author: Aníbal GonzálezPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1855661454
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Modernismo, a literary movement of fundamental importance to Spanish America and Spain, occurred at the turn of the nineteenth century, roughly from the 1880s to the 1920s. It is widely regarded as the first Spanish-language literary movement that originated in the New World and that became influential in the "Mother Country," Spain. Characterized by the appropriation of French Symbolist aesthetics into Spanish-language literature, modernismo's other significant traits were its cultural cosmopolitanism, its philological concern with language, literary history, and literary technique, and its journalistic penchant for novelty and fashion. Despite the splendor of modernista poetry, modernismo is now understood as a broad movement whose impact was felt just as strongly in the prose genres: the short story, the novel, the essay, and the journalistic cr©đnica [chronicle]. Conceived as an introduction to modernismo as well as an account of the current state of the art of modernismo studies, this book examines the movement's contribution to the various Spanish American literary genres, its main authors [from Mart©Ư and N©Łjera to Dar©Ưo and Rod©đ], its social and historical context, and its continuing relevance to the work of contemporary Spanish American authors such as Gabriel Garc©Ưa M©Łrquez, Sergio Ram©Ưrez, aargas Llosa. AN©BAL GONZ©ĩLEZ-P©œREZ is Professor of Modern Latin American Literature at Yale University.
The Politics of Spanish American 'Modernismo'
Author: Gerard AchingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521153812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Politics of Spanish American "Modernismo" elucidates the professional and literary means through which Spanish American modernistas negotiated a cultural politics of rapprochement with Spain and Europe in order to differentiate their Americanness from that of the United States. Gerard Aching argues that these turn-of-the-century men of letters were in fact responsible for the burgeoning role that intellectuals and writers had (and continue to have) in defining pan-Hispanicism. Aching's arguments contribute to current debates about modernity and the colonial/postcolonial condition in nineteenth-century Hispanic literatures.
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
Author: Roberto Gonzalez EchevarríaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521410359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 3 is devoted partly to the history of Brazilian literature, from the earliest writing through the colonial period and the Portuguese-language traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and partly also to an extensive bibliographical section in which annotated reading lists relating to the chapters in all three volumes of The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature are presented. These bibliographies are a unique feature of the History, further enhancing its immense value as a reference work.
An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature
Author: Jean FrancoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521449236
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A revised, updated edition of Jean Franco's "Introduction to Spanish-American Literature", first published in 1969.
Twentieth-century Spanish American literature to 1960
Author: David William FosterPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815326779
Category : Ethnicity in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Meets the needs of today's teachers and students Gathered to meet the upsurge of interest in Latin America, this collection features major critical articles dealing with the authors and texts customarily taught in colleges and universities in the United States. The articles are in English and Spanish, with a predominance of the former. Surveys a dynamic and exciting area of research Four Latin American writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature: Guatemalan Miquel Angel Asturias, Chilean Gabriela Mistral, Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Chilean Pablo Neruda. Also internationally recognized are the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, the Mexican Carlos Fuentes, and the Chilean Isabel Allende, to name only a few. Moreover, the sociopolitical circumstances of the past four decades of Latin American history, and the growing importance of the region have resulted in the creation of Latin American studies programs in numerous American universities. All of this literary activity hasinspired innumerable dissertations, theses, books, and journal articles. Explores contemporary Latin Americanissues and concerns In the face of such an enormous proliferation of commentary, students of Latin America and its literature need a body of basic texts that will provide them an orientation in the various research areas and new schools of thought that have emerged in the field. Particularly important are the essays and articles that have appeared in periodicals and other sources that Anglo American readers often find difficult to obtain. Individual volumes available: Vol. 1 Theoretical Debates in Spanish American Literature 448 pages, 0-8153-2676-9 Vol. 2 Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period 456 pages, 0-8153-2678-5 Vol. 3 From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin American Literture 352 pages, 0-8153-2680-7 Vol. 5 Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature Since 1960 416 pages, 0-8153-2681-5
Body, Gender, and Nation: Women Fiction Writers of Spanish American Modernismo [mujer, Cuerpo Y NaciÃ3n: Las Narradoras Del Modernismo].
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Author: Chantal BerthetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This dissertation examines a group of modernista women writers who are closely associated with the tradition of the nineteenth-century Latin American â€foundational fiction†novel. I suggest that their works function as national allegories in the sense that they are integral to the debates on modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century. I discuss the continuity of this â€foundational fictions†tradition within a different framework, modernismo, an aesthetic that is sometimes erroneously stereotyped as â€apolitical†or â€escapist.†By highlighting the peculiarities of the dialogue established between discourses of nation and the modernismo practiced by these authors, I show that their works are in fact profoundly, if not overtly, political. In the first chapter I analyze the treatment of race in Roque Moreno (1898) and IndÃ3mita (1904) by Teresa González de Fanning, and the second chapter examines religion in Perfiles vagos (1910) by Iris (Inés EcheverrÃa Bello). The third chapter focuses on El manantial (1908) by César Duayen (Emma de la Barra) and the fundamental placement of education as the backbone of nation development. The fourth chapter studies La rosa muerta (1914) by Aurora Cáceres and Ifigenia (1924) by Teresa de la Parra, two novels that substitute the character of the artist -typically at the center of modernista narratives- with sick women which brings the issue of female constraints to the front. I argue that by writing within the modernismo aesthetics, a synonym of modernity and intellectuality, these five women legitimized their voices in order to propose a national project.