Details

Subject(s)

• Spanish literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Realism in literature [Browse]

Editor

• Coffey, Mary L., 1956- [Browse]
• Versteeg, Margot [Browse]

Series

• Toronto Iberic ; 43. [More in this series]
• Toronto Iberic ; 43 [More in this series]

Summary note

"This volume of scholarly essays brings together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters. It represents not only the first collection to focus exclusively on the phenomenon of realism within the context of modern Spanish literature in more than a quarter century, but also the first to be written in English. Imagined Truths appears at a significant moment of renewed interest in realism as a literary, historical, and cultural phenomenon. The essays in this collection address a broad range of authors, works, and topics from an exploration of the continued relevance of Cervantes' Don Quixote to Juan Marse's twenty-first century detective fiction, and they focus on the various ways in which we understand and process narratives as representative of a certain kind of reality. In addition to their valuable analyses of particular works and authors, the essays constitute a much-needed scholarly dialogue that expands our understanding of the unique place of realism in Spain's cultural history."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Mary L. Coffey and Margot Versteeg
• Part one. Nineteeth-century Spanish realism : root and branch ; Arabella's veil : translating realism in "Don Quijote con faldas" (1808) / Catherine Jaffe
• Between "Costumbrista" sketch and short story : Armando Palacio Valdes's "Aguas fuertes" / Enrique Rubio Cremades
• Money, capital, monstrosity : metaphorical matrices of realism in Antonio Flores's "Ayer, hoy y mañana" / Rebecca Haidt
• Part two. Modernity and the parameters of nineteenth-century Spanish realism ; The physician in the narratives of Galdós and Clarín / Peter A. Bly
• Travelling by streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo Bazán / Maryellen Bieder
• Urban hyperrealism : Galdós's Dickensian descriptions of Madrid / Linda M. Willem
• Observed versus imaginative communities : creative realism in Galdós's "Misericordia" / Susan M. McKenna
• Part three. Stretching the limits of Spanish realism ; Colonialism, collages, and thick description : Pardo Bazán and the rhetoric of detail / Joyce Tolliver
• Embodied minds : critical erotic decisions in "La Regenta" / Randolph D. Pope
• María Zambrano on women, realism, and freedom / Roberta Johnson
• Part four. The challenges of genre : Spanish realism beyond the novel ; Writing (un)clear code : the letters and fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós / Cristina Patiño Eirín
• 'Volvía Galdós triunfante' : "Fortunata y Jacinta" on stage (1930) / David T. Gies
• When reality is too harsh to bear : role-play in Juan Marsé's "Historia de detectives" / Stephanie Sieburth.

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Other title(s)

Realism in modern Spanish literature and culture

ISBN

• 9781487505172 ((hardcover))
• 1487505175 ((hardcover))

OCLC

1081308360

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