Imagined truths : realism in modern Spanish literature and culture / edited by Mary L. Coffey and Margot Versteeg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coffey, Mary L., 1956- editor.

Versteeg, Margot, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Series:

Toronto Iberic ; 43.

Toronto Iberic ; 43

Standardized Title:

Imagined truths (Toronto, Ont.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 402 pages).

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Other Title:

Realism in modern Spanish literature and culture

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction / Mary L. Coffey and Margot Versteeg

Part one. Nineteeth-century Spanish realism : root and branch ; Arabella's veil : translating realism in "Don Quijote con faldas" (1808) / Catherine Jaffe

Between "Costumbrista" sketch and short story : Armando Palacio Valdes's "Aguas fuertes" / Enrique Rubio Cremades

Money, capital, monstrosity : metaphorical matrices of realism in Antonio Flores's "Ayer, hoy y mañana" / Rebecca Haidt

Part two. Modernity and the parameters of nineteenth-century Spanish realism ; The physician in the narratives of Galdós and Clarín / Peter A. Bly

Travelling by streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo Bazán / Maryellen Bieder

Urban hyperrealism : Galdós's Dickensian descriptions of Madrid / Linda M. Willem

Observed versus imaginative communities : creative realism in Galdós's "Misericordia" / Susan M. McKenna

Part three. Stretching the limits of Spanish realism ; Colonialism, collages, and thick description : Pardo Bazán and the rhetoric of detail / Joyce Tolliver

Embodied minds : critical erotic decisions in "La Regenta" / Randolph D. Pope

María Zambrano on women, realism, and freedom / Roberta Johnson

Part four. The challenges of genre : Spanish realism beyond the novel ; Writing (un)clear code : the letters and fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós / Cristina Patiño Eirín

''Volvía Galdós triunfante' : "Fortunata y Jacinta" on stage (1930) / David T. Gies

When reality is too harsh to bear : role-play in Juan Marsé's "Historia de detectives" / Stephanie Sieburth.

Notes:

Includes list of contributors, chapter notes and bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 10, 2019).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Other Format:

Print version: Imagined truths (Toronto, Ont.). Imagined truths.

ISBN:

9781487531690

1487531699

9781487531683

1487531680

Publisher Number:

40029259161

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.