Author: Cyrus Cole DeCosterPublisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Spanish
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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 Illusions of Doctor Faustino
Author: Juan ValeraPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813215382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Don Faustino Lopez de Mendoza, scion of an illustrious but impoverished family of the highest nobility, believes himself destined for great accomplishments in the literary world, sees himself as a poet of the first rank, and immerses himself in grand, if not grandiose, illusions. While living in a provincial Andalusian town and dreaming of triumphing in Madrid's artistic circles, Faustino embarks on a discovery of love with three women. How he extricates himself from each relationship and meets his sad end constitutes the denouement of this searching novel that depicts the deleterious effects of the Romantic malaise that swept through western Europe in the early part of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Doña Luz
Author: Juan ValeraPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Content with her tertuha, or gathering of close friends, her devotions, her books, and her daily routine, Dona Luz is unmoved by the prospect of marriage, because of her illegitimacy and her extremely modest financial status." "But then two men enter her life: Father Enrique, the ailing missionary nephew of Don Acisclo who returns from the Philippines to rest, and Don Jaime Pimentel, the dashing young military man whom Don Acisclo has chosen to back as the district representative in an uncoming election. How Dona Luz responds to both men determines the direction her life will take and the manner in which her illegitimacy will be explained."--Jacket.
Dramatized Consciousness in the Novels of Juan Valera
Author: Alejandro CáceresValera: Commander Mendoza
Author: Susan McKennaPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 180034502X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas.
Twentieth-century Short Story Explication
Author: Scripted Geographies
Author: Gayle R. NunleyPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756331
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This study offers the first book-length exploration of travel narratives by nineteenth-century Spanish authors. Focusing on texts produced during a crucial period in the development of Spain's modern consciousness at the close of its imperial age, Scripted Geographies shows how writers' strategies of travel representation reflected and participated in this process of cultural transformation. The first two chapters, devoted to travel within Europe, explore constructions of Spain's sometimes problematic encounter with Western society and traditions. The final chapters shift to orientalist travel, allowing reflection on how Spanish renderings of the non-Western other intersect with patterns found in the better-known corpus of orientalist literature produced in then-ascendant imperial powers like Britain and France. These textual constructions of cultural difference reflect at a profound level their authors' preoccupations and hopes for Spain, as well as their strong awareness of both the powers and dangers inherent in the process of representing real world experience via language. Professor of Spanish at the University of Vermont.
Commander Mendoza
Author: Juan ValeraPublisher: Aris and Phillips Hispanic Cla
ISBN: 0856688592
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
"The story of Dan Fadrique Lopez de Mendoza, a man of seafaring adventures and a deist in the mould of the eighteenth-century philosophes, and Dona Blanca Roldan de Solis, a woman of unbounded pride and a Catholic driven by religious fanaticism, neither of which traits prevented her from having had an adulterous affair as a young woman in Lima, Peru, with Don Fadrique."--Back cover.
Spain's Forgotten Novelist
Author: Brian J. DendlePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838752944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
At the turn of the century, Armando Palacio Valdes (1853-1938) enjoyed the reputation of being one of Spain's leading novelists. Widely translated into other languages, he was hailed enthusiastically by such foreign critics as Edmund Gosse and William Dean Howells. In the twentieth century, he was regarded as a "safe" novelist, the paladin of middle-class Catholic virtues. Recently, however, his novels are again attracting interest in Spain. In Spain's Forgotten Novelist, Brian J. Dendle critically examines Palacio Valdes's career and reputation, casting doubt on his benign image and veracity, and establishing that the sales of Palacio Valdes's books in translation were much less than the author claimed.
Juanita la Larga
Author: Juan ValeraPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813214351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"Juanita la Larga (1896) unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years her senior. Appearing here for the first time in English, Valera's novel describes in detail life in an Andalusian hamlet."--BOOK JACKET.