Author: Eleanor P. CumminsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Woman as Seen by Juan Valera
Author: Eleanor P. CumminsPepita 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.
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").
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.
The Images of Women in the Novels of Juan Valera
Author: Renee Rochelle MerrillPublisher:
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Category : Sex role in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Women Characters of Juan Valera
Author: Alfa Christine ChristiansonPublisher:
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Category : Women in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Women in Hispanic Literature
Author: David J. BillickPublisher:
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Category : Spanish American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe
Author: Christina BezariPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000828247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book explores women’s editorial and salon activities in Southern Europe and provides a comparative view of their practices. It argues that women in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece used their double role as editors and salonnières to engage with foreign cultures, launch the careers of promising young authors and advocate for modernization and social change. By examining a neglected body of periodicals edited between 1860 and 1920, this book sets out to explore women’s editorial agendas and their interest in creating a connection between salon life and the print press. What purpose did this connection serve? How did women editors use their periodicals and their salons to create opportunities for cross-cultural exchange? In what ways did women use their double role as editors and salonnières to promote modernization and social progress in Southern Europe? By addressing these questions, this monograph contributes to the recent expansion of scholarship on nineteenth and twentieth-century periodicals and opens new avenues for theoretical reflection on European modernity. It also invites scholars and non-specialist readers to question the center vs. periphery model and to consider Southern European counties as cultural hubs in their own right.
A Study of the Women Characters in the Novels of Juan Valera
Author: Alice Katherine AbbottPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
In Dialogue with Valera
Author: Thomas R. FranzPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Juan Valera (1824-1905) was Spain's only realist with a lifelong insistence that narrative privilege invention over testimony. Throughout Valera's lengthy career, his novels engaged in a running esthetic debate with those of his chief rivals, Galdós and Alas. This debate, chronicled in the present work, led to many compromises and ultimately produced, in the twentieth-century fiction of Valle-Inclán and Unamuno, a novelistic form, also detailed here, that exhibited clear debts to Valera's catalytic influence.