Subject, structure, and imagination in the Spanish discourse on modernity
By: C. Christopher Soufas, Jr
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781137536822
Subjects: Spanish literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literature and society; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Aesthetics); LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Description: "Beginning with Spanish masterworks spanning from the 16th century and continuing until the turn of the 20th century, Subject, Structure, and Imagination in the Spanish Discourse on Modernity examines Spanish resistance to embracing the predominant European model of "the autonomous thinking subject." Spanish attitudes actually anticipate the critique of modernity which ushers in Modernism during the early decades of the 20th century.  "--

"The book examines Spanish attitudes to modernity, which differ from most counterparts in Europe, especially as relates to Human Subjectivity and the Imagination. Spain never embraces fully the European mainstream view of the middle-class autonomous thinking subject"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Subject, Structure, and Imagination in the Spanish Discourse on Modernity PART I: A "NEW" MAN ON THE EUROPEAN SCENE1. Lázaro de Tormes 2. Don Quijote 3. Segismundo 4. Don Juan 5. "Velázquez" PART II: THE SUBLIME AND THE BEAUTIFUL 6. Feijoo and Jovellanos 7. Goya and Los caprichos 8. Don Juan and Don Juan Tenorio 9. Valera and Pepita Jime;nezConclusion: Modernity/Modernism.