The Spiritual Consciousness Of Carmen Martín Gaite

Author : Anne-Marie Storrs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855663886

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The Spiritual Consciousness of Carmen Martín Gaite by Anne-Marie Storrs Pdf

Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) defined religioso as the reconnection of that which was previously united, namely, the day-to-day and supernatural worlds - here defined as consciousness and the unconscious, bringing awareness and wholeness. In this book, Martín Gaite's religious outlook is explored through the inner journeys of five female characters in El balneario, Lo raro es vivir, Irse de casa and Nubosidad variable. Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) defined religioso as the reconnection of that which was previously united, namely, the day-to-day and supernatural worlds - here defined as consciousness and the unconscious, bringing awareness and wholeness. In this book, Martín Gaite's religious outlook is explored through the inner journeys of five female characters in El balneario, Lo raro es vivir, Irse de casa and Nubosidad variable. For Martín Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires conscious attention to the products of the unconscious (dreams, images, memories, premonitions), followed by reflection and action, as well as a similar attentiveness and responsiveness to external events both large and small. This reconnection of the supernatural and day-to-day worlds also involves descent to the unconscious - the way to wholeness - as depicted in so many myths and fairy tales, including those which Martín Gaite used to retell or enhance the works analysed in this book: Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Amor and Psyche, Demeter and Persephone, and the Descent of the Goddess Inanna. Looking at the extent to which these female characters attend to, reflect on, and respond to their dreams, images, memories and events, the analysis suggests that Martín Gaite uses her stories to try to communicate both the road to her own enlightenment and warnings about paths that lead away from this.

Author : Carmen Martín Gaite
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0838755747

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Courtship Customs in Postwar Spain by Carmen Martín Gaite Pdf

She calls attention to the hypocrisy of the system, to the image versus the reality, and to how certain watchwords like "rationing" and "restriction" went beyond their economic applications to touch on personal behavior and attitudes." "Themes she touches on in the nine chapters (and epilogue) include proper dress and behavior for women; a young woman's limited future; the influence of the Falange (Fascist) party on society and on individual behaviour; the "rebel" girl; family life; sex; cinema and the Spaniard; and courtship and the stages of relationship."

Author : Marian Womack
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3039118277

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Beyond The Back Room by Marian Womack Pdf

This collection of essays examines current trends in scholarly research on Spanish author Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000). It concentrates on the least explored areas of Martín Gaite's oeuvre, such as her collage artwork, the relationship between image and text in her work, and her close relationship with themes such as genre writing, the fairy tale, and textual/physical notions of space, as well as her personal theories on orality and narration. As we pass the tenth anniversary of her death, Martín Gaite continues to be an increasing focus of study, as scholars start to identify and comprehend the breadth and scope of her work. The essays in the volume complement previous studies of Martín Gaite's major works from the 1960s and 1970s by focusing largely on her later novels, together with in-depth analysis of the manuscripts and artistic materials that have been made available since her death.

Author : Linda E. Chown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000639063

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Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite by Linda E. Chown Pdf

This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite: 1) Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and Martín Gaite’s Retahílas (1974) and 2) Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and Martín Gaite’s The Back Room (1978). Three major structural divisions facilitate examining implications of the novels for 1) feminism 2) literary narrative and 3) the lives of people-at-large.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015057953161

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Author : Catherine O'Leary,Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855662810

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A Companion to Carmen Martín Gaite by Catherine O'Leary,Alison Ribeiro de Menezes Pdf

A comprehensive examination of the full range of Carmen Martín Gaite's work. Carmen Martín Gaite produced a large body of work in various genres over the course of her five-decade career, though she is primarily known as a novelist, short story writer, and social commentator. Her work at times reflects, and at times defies, the pattern of development in Spanish fiction since the 1950s. This Companion offers a re-reading of Martín Gaite's works, emphasizing her early experimentalism which culminated in mid-career works (notably El cuarto de atrás), and stressing how, in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the majority of Spanish novelists were engaged in a critique of history, Martín Gaite turned to the writing of cultural history, exploring its intersection with narrative fiction in a positivist rather than a nihilistic mode. Her exploration of gender issues, particularly mother-child relations, towards the end of her career anticipated new directions in feminist thought. Discussions of often-ignored works, such as poetry, drama, children's literature, and literary translations, offer insight into sidelined aspects of this writer's literary output. Catherine O'Leary is Reader in Spanish at the University of St Andrews. Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is Professor of Spanish at the University of Warwick.

Author : Elizabeth N. Evasdaughter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004048141

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Catholic Girlhood Narratives by Elizabeth N. Evasdaughter Pdf

Thirty-three girlhood memoirs by a diverse group of Catholic women, including Sarah Bernhardt and Simone de Beauvoir, are the focus of this pioneering study.

Author : Lissette Rolón-Collazo
Publisher : Society of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : WISC:89083739235

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Carmen Martín Gaite by Lissette Rolón-Collazo Pdf

Carmen Martín Gaite is one of the most studied Spanish writers of the twentieth century. This volume incorporates analyses of selected works of both fiction and nonfiction, and begins with personal tributes to Martín Gaite from both friends and scholars. The second section of the book consists of studies devoted to Carmen Martín Gaite's works, employing a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, written from differing perspectives. Martín Gaite insists in "The Virtues of Reading" that writing is not drudgery but sheer pleasure, and she celebrates the enjoyment derived from "lur[ing] the reader or listener to embark on what is to be a shared adventure." We trust that those who approach this volume will do so with a comparable sense of adventure, and gain pleasure, illumination, and an enhanced appreciation of the work of a gifted author.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Latin America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015643583

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Latin America in Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UCAL:B5120348

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Humanities Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Spanish literature
ISBN : UOM:39015064836235

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Letras Peninsulares by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cynthia Lucy Stephens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781855663497

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The Borges Enigma by Cynthia Lucy Stephens Pdf

Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical short stories, particularly from the famous collections Ficciones and El Aleph. Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doubles and allusions and the roles played by translation and the figure of the creator, the book provides new readings of these stories, revealing their hidden personal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. These insights shed fresh light on Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.

Author : Trevor J. Dadson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781855662735

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Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain by Trevor J. Dadson Pdf

There has been a widely-held consensus among historians that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this apparent obduracy made their expulsion between 1609 and 1614 both necessary and inevitable. This book challenges that view. Assimilation, coexistence, and tolerance between Old and New Christians in early modern Spain were not a fiction or a fantasy, but could be a reality, made possible by the thousands of ordinary individuals who did not subscribe to the negative vision of the Moriscos put around by the propagandists of the government, and who had lived in peace and harmony side by side for generations. For some, this may be a new and surprising vision of early modern Spain, which for too long, and thanks in large part to the Black Legend, has been characterized as a land of intolerance and fanaticism. This book will help to rebalance the picture and show sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain in a new, infinitely richer and more rewarding light. Trevor J. Dadson FBA is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and is currently President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Author : María Elena Soliño
Publisher : Digitalia - Scripta Humanistica
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015054159127

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La conclusión del Amadís de Gaula by María Elena Soliño Pdf

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that traces the historical development of the fairy tale genre, examines their didactic intent, and critiques the images of women in fairy tales. The second chapter explores the manners by which fairy tales were used as a tool for indoctrination during the formative years of the three authors under consideration. These introductory chapters are followed by individual chapters devoted to Martin Gaite, Matute, and Tusquets in which Solino explores the connections between the literature these authors published for children and the novels they penned for an adult readership.

Author : Joyce Moss
Publisher : World Literature & Its Times
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106016824978

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Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times by Joyce Moss Pdf

Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on major fiction, poetry and nonfiction from Spain and Portugal.