Spanish reception of Russian narratives, 1905-1939 : transcultural dialogues / Lynn C. Purkey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purkey, Lynn C., author.

Series:

Colección Támesis. Monografías ; Serie A, 318.

Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 318

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet literature--Appreciation--Spain.

Soviet literature.

Russian literature--Appreciation--Spain.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--Appreciation.

Soviet literature--Appreciation.

Spain.

Soviet literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

203 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Tamesis, 2013.

Summary:

Drawing upon theories on the novel in Bakhtin's Dialogic Imagination, this book examines Nuevo Romanticismo through the lens of Russo-Soviet littérature engageée. The term Nuevo Romanticismo originated in José Díaz Fernández's eponymous essay and has been applied to a group of writers who exemplified a rehumanization of the field of Spanish cultural production. In contrast with the dehumanized tendencies noted by Ortega y Gasset, writers César Arconada, Ramón J. Sender, and Lusia Carnés combined avant-garde aesthetics and a deep preoccupation with the human condition, creating a model of politically engaged art in part through transcultural dialogues with Russian literary models. This study explores the deep connection between Spanish and Russian narratives immediately before and during the Second Republic, as well as themes as relevant today as nearly a century ago: the ethics of war, the new woman, and responses to machine culture in the modern age. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Dialogics through Translations and Travelogues 9

2 The Novel of Consciousness: Gorky, Díaz Fernández, Arderíus and Benavides 45

3 Utopia and Dystopia: Factory Narratives 77

4 The New Woman and the Second Republic 109

5 Pacifist and War Prose 135.

ISBN:

9781855662544

185566254X

OCLC:

851154327