Imagined Truths : Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture / Mary L. Coffey, Margot Versteeg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coffey, Mary L., Editor.

Versteeg, Margot, Editor.

Series:

Toronto Iberic ; 43.

Toronto Iberic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish literature.

Realism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages).

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This volume of scholarly essays brings together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters. It represents not only the first collection to focus exclusively on the phenomenon of realism within the context of modern Spanish literature in more than a quarter century, but also the first to be written in English. Imagined Truths appears at a significant moment of renewed interest in realism as a literary, historical, and cultural phenomenon. The essays in this collection address a broad range of authors, works, and topics from an exploration of the continued relevance of Cervantes' Don Quixote to Juan Marse's twenty-first century detective fiction, and they focus on the various ways in which we understand and process narratives as representative of a certain kind of reality. In addition to their valuable analyses of particular works and authors, the essays constitute a much-needed scholarly dialogue that expands our understanding of the unique place of realism in Spain's cultural history."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction / Mary L. Coffey and Margot Versteeg

Part one. Nineteenth-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 Perez 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 Marse's "Historia de detectives" / Stephanie Sieburth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781487531683

1487531680

9781487531690

1487531699

OCLC:

1101101033