Carmen Martin Gaite : poetics, visual elements and space / Ester Bautista Botello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bautista Botello, Ester, author.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies.

Iberian and Latin American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spanish fiction.

Martin Gaite, Carmen--Criticism and interpretation.

Martin Gaite, Carmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019]

Summary:

This book reconstructs the poetics of Carmen Martín Gaite by viewing the concept of journey as a fundamental principle upon which she bases and elaborates her narrative writing of the 1990s. Five novels published in this period receive critical attention, all of which coincide with the last trips taken by the writer to New York: Caperucita en Manhattan (1990), Nubosidad variable (1992), La reina de las nieves (1994), Lo raro es vivir (1996) and Irse de casa (1998). To the extent that the journey is the essence of the narrative under consideration, the concept is analysed as an aesthetic practice and an attempt to identify a series of actions, which allow us to link the writer's novels with two areas that have previously received only scant critical scrutiny: geography and the visual dimension. This book presents a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of space in Martín Gaite's narrative as well as in her collages, drawings and paintings.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786833655

1786833654

OCLC:

1082204653