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Quixotic Modernists
Louise Ciallella
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Description for Quixotic Modernists
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 621.
Quixotic Modernists gives close readings of two novels by two little-studied writers of the early twentieth century in Spain, Felipe Trigo's Les ingénues (1909) and María Marínez Sierra's Tú eres la paz (1906), in relation to the canonical Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. By doing so, the study reveals the modern message (regarding gender), and modernist qualities of the prose of these works. Included are discussions of Quijote intertexts, proverbial language and tactics, the angel and the "muder-niña," flower, water, and animal imagery, and visual arts in relation to gender definition. Also included are contemporary responses ... Read more
Quixotic Modernists gives close readings of two novels by two little-studied writers of the early twentieth century in Spain, Felipe Trigo's Les ingénues (1909) and María Marínez Sierra's Tú eres la paz (1906), in relation to the canonical Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. By doing so, the study reveals the modern message (regarding gender), and modernist qualities of the prose of these works. Included are discussions of Quijote intertexts, proverbial language and tactics, the angel and the "muder-niña," flower, water, and animal imagery, and visual arts in relation to gender definition. Also included are contemporary responses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482683
SKU
V9781611482683
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About Louise Ciallella
Louise Ciallella teaches Spanish language and literature at Northern Illinois University.
Reviews for Quixotic Modernists
"Full of informative and detailed close readings simultaneously put into their broader literary and historical contexts, focusing on the particularities of Spanish modernization and modernity while tracing the links of the late nineteenth-century literary texts to the Golden Age, this book is illuminating and necessary for anyone interested in the literature and gender issues of Spain's late nineteenth century."
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