Imagined Truths

Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Imagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism. Bringing together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, this collection offers new approaches to literary and cultural criticism and reveals how Spanish realism, far from imitative of other European movements, engaged in complex and modern concepts of representation and mimesis.Imagined Truths acknowledges the critical importance of women writers and contemporary approaches to questions of gender. The essays address the impact of economics on our perceptions of reality and our constructions of everyday life, and they argue for the importance of emotions in the social construction of individual identity. Most importantly, the essays acknowledge the post-imperial turn in literary studies.Addressing a broad range of authors, works, and topics, including the continued relevance of Cervantes’s Don Quijote and the way Spanish realism moved beyond narrative to inhabit the spaces of both theatre and film, Imagined Truths comprises a series of meditations on new ways of understanding the unique place of realism in Spanish cultural history. Offering insights for specialists in a wide range of disciplines – literature, cultural studies, gender studies, history, philosophy – this collection is equally important for readers just becoming acquainted with realist narrative as a central component of Spanish literary history.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-05-19
Mått157 x 234 x 38 mm
Vikt720 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Iberic
Antal sidor416
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487505172

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMary L. Coffey, Pomona College and Margot Versteeg, University of KansasPart One. Nineteeth-Century Spanish Realism: Root and Branch1. Arabella’s Veil: Translating Realism in Don Quijote con faldas (1808)Catherine Jaffe, Texas State University, San Marcos2. Between Costumbrista Sketch and Short Story: Armando Palacio Valdés’s Aguas fuertesEnrique Rubio Cremades, Universidad de Alicante3. Money, Capital, Monstrosity: Metaphorical Matrices of Realism in Antonio Flores’s Ayer, hoy y mañanaRebecca Haidt, The Ohio State UniversityPart Two. Modernity and the Parameters of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism4. The Physician in the Narratives of Galdós and ClarínPeter Bly, Queen’s University5. Travelling by Streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo BazánMaryellen Bieder, Indiana University, Bloomington6. Urban Hyperrealism: Galdós’s Dickensian Descriptions of MadridLinda M. Willem, Butler University7. Observed versus Imaginative Communities: Creative Realism in Galdós’s MisericordiSusan M. McKenna, University of DelawarePart Three. Stretching the Limits of Spanish Realism8. Colonialism, Collages, and Thick Description: Pardo Bazán and the Rhetoric of Detail Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign9. Embodied Minds: Critical Erotic Decisions in La RegentaRandolph D. Pope, University of Virginia10. María Zambrano on Women, Realism, and FreedomRoberta Johnson, University of KansasPart Four. The Challenges of Genre: Spanish Realism beyond the Novel11. Writing (Un)clear Code: The Letters and Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez GaldósCristina Patiño Eirín, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela12. "Volvía Galdós triunfante": Fortunata y Jacinta on Stage (1930)David T. Gies, University of Virginia13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé’s "Historia de detectives" Stephanie Sieburth, Duke UniversityContributorsIndex