Idle fictions : the Hispanic vanguard novel, 1926-1934 / Gustavo Perez Firmat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Firmat, Gustavo, 1949-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

Expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ""idle fictions"" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as P?rez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated ""a class war not between social classes but between literary classes."" Concentrating on source material not widely available, P?rez Firmat reconstructs the reception these novels received at the time of t

Contents:

Criticism: The Vanguard Novel as a Discursive Category. A Pneumatic Aesthetics

Novels: Closed World. Decharacterization. From Palimpest to Pastiche. The Novel as Matrass

Conclusion: Hermes in and out of the Subway.

Notes:

Includes index.

"First printed in paperback 1993."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168).

ISBN:

9786612919800

9781282919808

1282919806

9780822382621

0822382628

OCLC:

850216160