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Imagined Truths
Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
Mary L. Coffey (Edited by), Margot Versteeg (Edited by)
9781487505172
Hardback, published 19 May 2019
416 pages, 3 b&w illustrations
23.4 x 15.7 x 3.8 cm, 0.72 kg
Imagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism. Bringing together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, this collection offers new approaches to literary and cultural criticism and reveals how Spanish realism, far from imitative of other European movements, engaged in complex and modern concepts of representation and mimesis. Imagined Truths acknowledges the critical importance of women writers and contemporary approaches to questions of gender. The essays address the impact of economics on our perceptions of reality and our constructions of everyday life, and they argue for the importance of emotions in the social construction of individual identity. Most importantly, the essays acknowledge the post-imperial turn in literary studies. Addressing a broad range of authors, works, and topics, including the continued relevance of Cervantes’s Don Quijote and the way Spanish realism moved beyond narrative to inhabit the spaces of both theatre and film, Imagined Truths comprises a series of meditations on new ways of understanding the unique place of realism in Spanish cultural history. Offering insights for specialists in a wide range of disciplines – literature, cultural studies, gender studies, history, philosophy – this collection is equally important for readers just becoming acquainted with realist narrative as a central component of Spanish literary history.
Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Nineteeth-Century Spanish Realism: Root and Branch 1. Arabella’s Veil: Translating Realism in Don Quijote con faldas (1808) 2. Between Costumbrista Sketch and Short Story: Armando Palacio Valdés’s Aguas fuertes 3. Money, Capital, Monstrosity: Metaphorical Matrices of Realism in Antonio Flores’s Ayer, hoy y mañana Part Two. Modernity and the Parameters of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism 4. The Physician in the Narratives of Galdós and Clarín 5. Travelling by Streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo Bazán 6. Urban Hyperrealism: Galdós’s Dickensian Descriptions of Madrid 7. Observed versus Imaginative Communities: Creative Realism in Galdós’s Misericordi Part Three. Stretching the Limits of Spanish Realism 8. Colonialism, Collages, and Thick Description: Pardo Bazán and the Rhetoric of Detail 9. Embodied Minds: Critical Erotic Decisions in La Regenta 10. María Zambrano on Women, Realism, and Freedom Part Four. The Challenges of Genre: Spanish Realism beyond the Novel 11. Writing (Un)clear Code: The Letters and Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós 12. "Volvía Galdós triunfante": Fortunata y Jacinta on Stage (1930) 13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé’s "Historia de detectives" Contributors
Mary L. Coffey, Pomona College and Margot Versteeg, University of Kansas
Catherine Jaffe, Texas State University, San Marcos
Enrique Rubio Cremades, Universidad de Alicante
Rebecca Haidt, The Ohio State University
Peter Bly, Queen’s University
Maryellen Bieder, Indiana University, Bloomington
Linda M. Willem, Butler University
Susan M. McKenna, University of Delaware
Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Randolph D. Pope, University of Virginia
Roberta Johnson, University of Kansas
Cristina Patiño Eirín, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
David T. Gies, University of Virginia
Stephanie Sieburth, Duke University
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