The Cambridge Companion to The Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: First Edition, 9/11/2003
EAN 9780521778152, ISBN10: 0521778158
Paperback, 344 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote and the traditions of the picaresque novel, these essays focus on the question of invention and experiment, on what constitutes the singular features of evolving fictional forms. It examines how the novel articulates the relationships between history and fiction, high and popular culture, art and ideology, and gender and society. Contributors highlight the role played by historical events and cultural contexts in the elaboration of the Spanish novel, which often takes a self-conscious stance toward literary tradition. Topics covered include the regional novel, women writers, and film and literature. This companionable survey, which includes a chronology and guide to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.
Introduction
mirror and text Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de MartÃÂnez
Part I. Since Cervantes . . .
1. The legacy of Don Quijote and the picaresque novel Anthony J. Close
2. The enlightenment and fictional form Rebecca Haidt
Part II. The Nineteenth Century
3. The regional novel
evolution and consolation Alison Sinclair
4. The FolletÃÂn
Spain looks to Europe Elisa Marti-Lopez
5. The Realist Novel Harriet Turner
6. History and fiction Geoffrey Ribbans
7. Gender and beyond
nineteenth-century women Spanish writers Lou Charnon-Deutsch
8. Decadence and innovation in fin de siglo Spain Noel M. Valis
Part III. The Twentieth Century
9. From the generation of 1898 to the vanguard Roberta Johnson
10. The testimonial novel and the novel of memory Gonzalo Sobejano
11. Questioning the text Bradley Epps
12. Women and fiction in post-Franco Spain Akiko Tsuchiya
13. Cultural alliances
film and literature in the socialist period
1982–1995 Isolina Ballesteros
14. The novel beyond modernity Teresa Vilarós
15. Writing about writing Randolph Pope.