Memory And Identity In The Narratives Of Soledad Puértolas

Author : Tamara L. Townsend
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498500302

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Memory and Identity in the Narratives of Soledad Puértolas by Tamara L. Townsend Pdf

Narratives of contemporary Spanish writer Soledad Puértolas (1947-), inducted into the Real Academia Española in 2010, depict the psychological struggles of the individual in postmodern democratic European society. Puértolas’s realist style emphasizes storytelling and character portrayal, and her urban middle-class characters seek satisfying interactions with others and a sense of purpose. Memory aids characters in their quest for meaning and identity, and their use of memory reveals their self-perception and outlook on life. This book maps four ways in which Puértolas’s narratives use memory to approach the fundamental problem of the individual’s search for purpose and identity. Some characters are burdened by memory in certain texts, especially Días del Arenal (1992) and Burdeos (1986). Reflection upon a painful self-defining memory affects their present mood and behavior. For some, this burden causes them to withdraw or to act irresponsibly; others accept and overcome the scars of the past. A second type of character takes an escapist approach to memory, as seen in Queda la noche (1989).Their nostalgic retreat indicates a restless dissatisfaction with the present. In a third type of memory, a secondary character provides the organizing force behind a protagonist’s reminiscences, often an extroverted foil to highlight the protagonist’s introspective nature. Memory of the relationship motivates the protagonist to mentally order his or her own life through the life review process; Una vida inesperada (1997) and La señora Berg (1998) provide examples. Finally, in the amnesic mode, Puértolas departs from realism to experiment with different forms of amnesia, as in La rosa de plata (1999) and Si al atardecer llegara el mensajero (1995). Memory loss highlights the centrality of memory to personhood and identity, while at the same time it draws attention to the inadequacy of memory to explain the totality of existence.

Author : Simona Mitroiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319968339

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Women’s Narratives and the Postmemory of Displacement in Central and Eastern Europe by Simona Mitroiu Pdf

This volume explores the different mechanisms and forms of expression used by women to come to terms with the past, focusing on the variety and complexity of women’s narratives of displacement within the context of Central and Eastern Europe. The first part addresses the quest for personal (post)memory from the perspective of the second and third generations. The touching collaboration established in reconstructing individual and family (post)memories offers invaluable insights into the effects of displacement, coping mechanisms, and resilience. Adopting the idea that the text itself becomes a site of (post)memory, the second part of the volume brings into discussion different sites and develops further this topic in relation to the creative process and visual text. The last part questions the past in relation to trauma and identity displacement in the countries where abusive regimes destroyed social bonds and had a lasting impact on the people lives.

Author : Rina Benmayor,María Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez,Pilar Domínguez Prats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 1137438703

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Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation by Rina Benmayor,María Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez,Pilar Domínguez Prats Pdf

The Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds have been crucibles for important work in oral history and other fields, but too little has been made accessible to English readers. This collection seeks to enhance and expand access to recent scholarship from the Iberian world that has not been translated or otherwise made available to English speakers.

Author : Anny Brooksbank Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 0719047579

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Women in Contemporary Spain by Anny Brooksbank Jones Pdf

This volume gives access to debates in Spanish women's studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121649094

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sandra J. Schumm
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611483581

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Mother and Myth in Spanish Novels by Sandra J. Schumm Pdf

Remembering the forgotten mother is a major theme in Myth and Mother in Spanish Novels and reflects the current interest in the recuperation of historic memory in Spain. The novels in this study feature mature protagonists who recall their mothers as a way to define their own identities and to nullify the fictional matricide prevalent in post-war Spanish novels; this twenty-first-century fiction highlights the haunting presence of the mother and begs comparison with myth.

Author : Emilie L. Bergmann,Richard Herr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520252677

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Mirrors and Echoes by Emilie L. Bergmann,Richard Herr Pdf

“With contributions by well-known and respected critics, writing of a very high caliber, and essays that explore hitherto uncharted territory, Mirrors and Echoes is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Spanish women's writing.”—Lou Charnon-Deutsch, author of Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women

Author : Trine Stauning Willert,Gerasimus Katsan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498563390

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Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film, and Popular Culture by Trine Stauning Willert,Gerasimus Katsan Pdf

This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet distant past and, on the other, a traumatic contemporary history of wars, expulsions, civil strife and political and economic crises. Such clashes of imaginary identifications and collective traumas call for interpretations not only from historians but also from artists and storytellers. Therefore, the chapters in this volume explore the ways in which sensitive and creative perspectives of art approach and appropriate history in Greece. Through a rich collection of analytical case studies and creative reflections on Greece’s past, present, and future this volume presents the reader with the ways a set of contemporary Greek storytellers in different genres have incorporated previously under-explored or little-known themes, events, and epochs in modern Greek history showing how the past, by being interpreted and represented in the present, can teach us a lot about contemporary Greek society. The themes that form the point of departure for the stories told or retold cover various significant components of Greek history and culture such as ancient myths, the Ottoman period, the Greek War of Independence and the Greek Civil War, but also less prominent or known aspects of Greek history such as the Greek Enlightenment, the long and tragic history of Greek Jewry, and migration to and from Greece.

Author : Cristina Rivera Garza
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948980104

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New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza Pdf

A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza. “One of Mexico’s greatest living writers,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Garza, “we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.” In the years since, Rivera Garza’s work has received widespread recognition: She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for fiction that “interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective,” and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Yet we have still only started to discover the full range of a writer who is at once an incisive voice on migration, borders, and violence against women, as well as a high stylist in the manner of Lispector or Duras. New and Selected Stories now brings together in English translation stories from across Rivera Garza’s career, drawing from three collections spanning over 30 years and including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a window into the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest, most original and affecting writers in the world today.

Author : Jean Andrews,Monserrat Lunati
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015045696542

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Contemporary Spanish Short Stories by Jean Andrews,Monserrat Lunati Pdf

A collection of short stories by 12 contemporary Spanish writers. The settings vary from the exotic to the historical and the fantastic. Each story follows the theme of a traveller or travellers, who, in the course of the story become lost to reality in some way.

Author : Robert C. Hauhart,Jeff Birkenstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498560245

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European Writers in Exile by Robert C. Hauhart,Jeff Birkenstein Pdf

European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that address the writers’ universal existential dilemma, when viewed through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I write, and to whom? While we often understand the term “exile” to refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be defined so narrowly, and the contributors to this volume explore a range of interesting and evolving definitions. Various countries in Europe have long been both a refuge for people and writers from many countries and a strife-torn region which has forced many to flee within the continent or beyond it. The phrase “in exile” involves writers moving across borders in multiple directions and for multiple reasons, including for reasons of duress or personal quest, and these themes are addressed and critiqued in these essays. This volume naturally examines the cataclysmic and near-universal exilic experiences relating to the world wars, including essays on Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. Additionally, essays address the unique early twentieth-century experiences of Emile Zola, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce. More contemporary essay subjects include Milan Kundera, Norman Manea, Eva Hoffman, Caryl Phillips, and W. G. Sebald. This collection of transnational, globalized European literature studies envisions understanding the intersection of our contemporary world and various writers in exile in new cultural, historical, spatial, and epistemological frameworks. How does literary production in an increasingly globalized world—when seen from exile—affect a view back towards a country or region left behind? Or, conversely, how does exile push a writer to look outward to new (trans-)nationalized space(s)? These and other questions are important to investigate. Taken in sum, European Writers in Exile offers an academically rigorous, important, and cohesive volume.

Author : Charles Edward May
Publisher : Magill Bibliographies
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015025207823

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Twentieth Century European Short Story by Charles Edward May Pdf

Author : Brian Michael Norton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611484304

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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness by Brian Michael Norton Pdf

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century "inquiries after happiness," an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and Mary Hays, Brian Michael Norton's innovative study asks us to see the novel itself as a key instrument of Enlightenment ethics. His central argument is that the novel form provided a uniquely valuable tool for thinking about the nature and challenges of modern happiness: whereas treatises sought to theorize the conditions that made happiness possible in general, eighteenth-century fiction excelled at interrogating the problem on the level of the particular, in the details of a single individual's psychology and unique circumstances. Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness demonstrates further that through their fine-tuned attention to subjectivity and social context these writers called into question some cherished and time-honored assumptions about the good life: happiness is in one's power; virtue is the exclusive path to happiness; only vice can make us miserable. This elegant and richly interdisciplinary book offers a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment's ethical legacy.

Author : Nanette Norris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611478044

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Great War Modernism by Nanette Norris Pdf

New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore and clarify the position of the so-called ‘core’ of literary modernism in its seminal engagement with the Great War. In studying the years of the Great War, we find ourselves once more studying ‘the giants,’ about whom there is so much more to say, as well as adding hitherto marginalized writers – and a few visual artists – to the canon. The contention here is that these war years were seminal to the development of a distinguishable literary practice which is called ‘modernism,’ but perhaps could be further delineated as ‘Great War modernism,’ a practice whose aesthetic merits can be addressed through formal analysis. This collection of essays offers new insight into canonical British/American/European modernism of the Great War period using the critical tools of contemporary, expansionist modernist studies. By focusing on war, and on the experience of the soldier and of those dealing with issues of war and survival, these studies link the unique forms of expression found in modernism with the fragmented, violent, and traumatic experience of the time.

Author : Zénó Vernyik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793622266

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Arthur Koestler’s Fiction and the Genre of the Novel by Zénó Vernyik Pdf

Featuring a selection of brand new essays by a group of accomplished scholars, Arthur Koestler's Fiction and the Genre of the Novel covers all of Koestler's novels published in his lifetime, the first book to attempt this in English since Mark Levene's Arthur Koestler, published thirty-seven years ago. The team of contributors, with research backgrounds in history, political science, religious studies, law, linguistics and journalism besides literature, offers a truly multidisciplinary take on how Koestler's novels utilize, and at times transcend, the genre of the novel, and argues for their enduring relevance and appeal in the twenty-first century, inviting the reader to revisit and reassess them. With the topics of Koestler's novels including terrorism, massive migration, espionage, rape trauma, war trauma, the crisis of faith, propaganda, fake news and the role and responsibility of intellectuals in major international crises, as the volume aims to show, these texts are just as topical today, as they were at the time of their publication.