The Cambridge companion to the Spanish novel
Subtitle: from 1600 to the present
By: edited by Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez.
Contributors: Turner, Harriet S.; López de Martínez, Adelaida.
Series: Cambridge companions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Spanish fiction -- History and criticism.
Other titles: Spanish novel
Description: 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, formal and cultural, of evolving fictional forms. They examine 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 guides to further reading, conveys a vivid sense of the innovative techniques of the Spanish novel and of the debates surrounding it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the novel : mirror and text / Adelaida López de Martínez and Harriet Turner; title: The legacy of Don Quijote and the picaresque novel / Anthony J. Close; title: The Enlightenment and fictional form / Rebecca Haidt; title: The regional novel : evolution and consolation / Alison Sinclair; title: The folletín : Spain looks to Europe / Elisa Martí-López; title: The realist novel / Harriet Turner; title: History and fiction / Geoffrey Ribbans; title: Gender and beyond : nineteenth-century Spanish women writers / Lou Charnon-Deutsch; title: Decadence and innovation in fin de siglo Spain / Noël Valis; title: From the Generation of 1898 to the vanguard / Roberta Johnson; title: The testimonial novel and the novel of memory / Gonzalo Sobejano; title: Questioning the text / Bradley Epps; title: Women and fiction in post-Franco Spain / Akiko Tsuchiya; title: Cultural alliances : film and literature in the socialist period, 1982-1995 / Isolina Ballesteros; title: The novel beyond modernity / Teresa M. Vilarós; title: Writing about writing / Randolph D. Pope.