Galdos

Author : Nicholas Grenville Round
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1855660865

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New Galdós Studies by Nicholas Grenville Round Pdf

The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Pérez Galdós, is the subject of these new studies. The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Pérez Galdós, is the subject of New Galdós Studies, offered in memory of John Varey, author of Galdós Studies, the foundational text for contemporary Galdosian scholarship. Eamonn Rodgers describes Galdós's early readership and reception; James Whiston illustrates Galdós's creativity in Lo prohibido; Rhian Davies explores the enrichment of the novelist's language in Torquemada en la Cruz; Teresa Fuentes Peris demonstrates Galdós's radical critique of dominant social assumptions in Fortunata y Jacinta; Alex Longhurst deals with the representation of poverty in Misericordia while Lisa Condé detects a feminist intention in Tristana; Eric Southworth finds rich cultural and spiritual allusion in the same work; Nichols Round relates the deaths of children in the Torquemada novels and Angel Guerra to end-of-century ideological concerns.

Author : Sara E. Schyfter
Publisher : Tamesis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0729300501

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The Jew in the Novels of Benito Perez Galdos by Sara E. Schyfter Pdf

A study of Galdós' Jewish characters and what they tell us about the place of Jews in C19th Spanish society and culture. Few Spanish novelists have dealt with the problem of religion and religious commitment more comprehensively than Benito Pérez Galdós. His lifelong preoccupation with man in search of transendence repeatedly led him to evaluate andcriticize the religious institutions that stifled rather than helped man in his search. In the Jews, Galdós saw a people who, though victimized by religious intolerance, managed to survive persecution and affirm an abiding faithin God. He created Jewish characters throughout his long literary career and therefore presents the most comprehensive portrait of Jews as they existed in the culture, the religion and fabric of C19th Spanish society.

Author : Walter Thomas Pattison
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1954-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816658466

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Benito Peréz Galdós and the Creative Process by Walter Thomas Pattison Pdf

Benito Perez Galdos and the Creative Process was first published in 1954. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Most critics would rank Benito Perez Galdos second only to Cervantes among the great novelists of Spain. However, in spite of the esteem in which he is generally held, Galdos has been the subject of relatively few scholarly studies. Professor Pattison, by an analysis of two of Galdos' novels, attempts to reconstruct the creative processes that were involved in the writing of these novels. This is the first time that such a critical approach has been used in the field of Spanish fiction and the resulting study is significant not only to Spanish scholars but to all students of literature seeking further insights into the fascinating and still elusive creative process. Professor Pattison analyzes the novels Gloria, published in 1877, and Marianela,which was published the following year. Both are stories of contemporary life, the former having as its theme the conflict between noble religion and the fanaticism of individual religious sects, and the latter presenting a story of tragic love interwoven with the social problem of the responsibilities of the rich toward the poor. In tracking down the sources of ideas, characters, plots, and viewpoints that emerge in these novels, Professor Pattison worked first-hand in Galdos' personal library in Madrid. From the notes and markings in the books and from other intimate observations, the scholar-detective put his finger on many of the original sources that contributed to Galdos' artistic creations and identified the prototypes for fictional characters among persons Galdos knew.

Author : Robert J. Weber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : PEREZ GALDOS, BENITO,1843-1920. MIAU
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Miau Manuscript of Benito Pérez Galdós by Robert J. Weber Pdf

Author : T. E. Bell
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 185566125X

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Galdós and Darwin by T. E. Bell Pdf

Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito Pérez Galdós. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito Pérez Galdós would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Galdós throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Galdós's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Galdós and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century. T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University.

Author : Vernon A. Chamberlin
Publisher : Tamesis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0729300315

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Galdós and Beethoven by Vernon A. Chamberlin Pdf

Author : Jo Labanyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317896500

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Galdos by Jo Labanyi Pdf

Benito Perez Galdos has been described as 'the greatest Spanish novelist since Cervantes.' His work constitutes a major contribution to the nineteenth-century novel, rivalling that of Dickens of Balzac and making him an essential candidate for any course on the fiction of the period. Jo Labanyi's study is supported by a wide-rangting introduction, a section of contemporary comment, headnotes to each piece and helpful appendix material.

Author : Brian J. Dendle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813194547

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Galdós by Brian J. Dendle Pdf

The sheer volume of prolific Spanish novelist and playwright Benito Pérez Galdós's literary production has rendered overall assessment of his body of work all but impossible. The later volumes in his ambitious and popular Episodios nacionales series, in particular, have suffered from scholarly indifference. In this acclaimed study, Brian J. Dendle closely considers the twenty-six novels in this series written between 1898 and 1912. These episodios, Dendle contests, are artistically superior to the earlier volumes and offer a unique opportunity to establish the ideological profile of the mature Galdós.

Author : Harriet S. Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521378680

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Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta by Harriet S. Turner Pdf

A new critical introduction to Galdos' four-part masterpiece set in Madrid in the 1870s.

Author : Robert J. Weber
Publisher : Tamesis
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0900411805

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Galdós Studies II by Robert J. Weber Pdf

Author : Benito Pérez Galdós
Publisher : Aris & Phillips Hispanic Class
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780856688942

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Galdos: Dona Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós Pdf

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain. Dona Perfecta (1876) was Galdos' first novel delving into the social world of middle-class Spain in the 19th century; a young liberal arrives in an imaginary cathedral city, with the intention of marrying his cousin. However the church interferes and obstructs the marriage, leading to a tragic clash between the traditional, provincial outlook and modern, liberal outlook of Madrid. Graham Whittaker's edition with Spanish text, English translation and substantial introduction aims to make this important novel widely available in English and the introduction and notes provide a comprehensive overview of the novel and Galdos' work.

Author : Graham Whittaker
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781800344990

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Galdos: Dona Perfecta by Graham Whittaker Pdf

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific Spanish realist novelist, who through a lack of good translations is virtually unknown outside Spain, though he has been compared as second only to Cervantes in Spanish literature and whose work is considered to give the deepest, truest, most comprehensive realities of Spain.

Author : Robert S. Rudder
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443874946

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Halma by Benito Pérez Galdós by Robert S. Rudder Pdf

Galdós’s early writings were inspired by the French writer Émile Zola, a practitioner of the literary school of Naturalism. This interest then turned to a type of spiritual naturalism under the influence of Russian writers, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev, whom he called his “great teacher.” One of his most important works during this period was the novel, Nazarín, a kind of retelling of the life of Christ, in which the main character, a disgraced priest, wanders about the countryside with two female companions, attempting to follow the teachings of the Bible to the letter. He is taken for either a saint or a mad man, and at the end is shut up in an institution. The publication of Nazarín was followed by its sequel, Halma, only six months later. In this novel, the protagonist, an aristocratic lady named Halma, after suffering great hardships, decides to use her inheritance to found an idyllic Christian society, harboring the needy and the sick. Two of its citizens will be the priest, Nazarín, and one of his two women followers; another will be Halma’s ne’er-do-well male cousin, Urrea. Her family and their friends express admiration for her high ideals, but they also believe she may be just as mad as the priest, and work to defeat her. A fortunate denouement comes only after the unforeseen intervention of the supposedly “mad” priest. Halma also has many points of contact with the motion picture Viridiana, by Spain’s’ great director, Luis Buñuel. In this film, a religious novice, Viridiana, attempts to turn a farm into a shelter for needy beggars. During her absence, however, the beggars wreck the house in a drunken orgy. While not sharing Buñuel’s artistic vision, Galdós, nevertheless, expresses his own ideas with great imagination.

Author : Diane Faye Urey
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400860005

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The Novel Histories of Galdos by Diane Faye Urey Pdf

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) occupies a position in Spanish literature surpassed only by Cervantes, and, like him, made a major contribution to the European novel that is now becoming widely recognized. In a semiological approach to the second period of Episodios Nacionales, Diane Urey demonstrates the relevance of these twenty-six novels, the least studied of Galdos's works, to fundamental issues such as the relationship between history and fiction, and between mimesis and creation. Her findings of ambiguity, irony, and allegory in this writer's highly self-conscious historical novels will revise our views of Galdos's place in European letters while offering new insights into a general theory of historical fiction. Diane Urey offers an alternative to referential or ideological interpretations of the Episodios by stressing the indeterminate textuality of historical incidents and the fictionality of historical discourse. Drawing on Derrida, De Man, Foucault, and Hayden White, she applies a wide range of narrative theory to these texts and concludes that novel and history are interchangeable modes of discourse because they rely necessarily on the same narrative strategies. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Stephen Gilman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400855216

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Galdos and the Art of the European Novel by Stephen Gilman Pdf

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman relates the writer and his work to the nineteenth century novel as a genre and traces his artistic growth during a twenty-year period, from his initial historical fable, La Fontana de Oro, to his masterpiece, Fortunata y Jacinta. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.