Reading the popular in contemporary Spanish texts
By: Shelley Godsland & Nickianne Moody.
Contributors: Godsland, Shelley, 1966-; Moody, Nickianne.
Series: Monash Romance studies; Monash Romance studies (Newark, Del.)
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Newark, [Del.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Spanish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts explores print genres that have previously merited little critical attention in Spain, despite their immense popularity and their role in shaping the reading habits of large numbers of Spaniards. This collection analyses the value of popular fiction for understanding contemporary life in Spain and assesses the sociocultural, political, and even economic relevance of multiple genres to the Spain of the last fifty years."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-149) and index.
Table of contents: title: Now I know "Qué leer" : genre fiction and the literary magazine in Spain / Sara Martín; title: Popular collage in the Carvalho series of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán / Susana Bayó Belenguer; title: The romance novel, or, the generalisimo's control of the popular imagination / Salvador Faura, Shelley Godsland, Nickianne Moody; title: The importance of being esbelta : fatness, food and fornication in Almudena Grandes' "Malena, una vida hervida" / Shelley Godsland; title: Transformative identities in the science fiction of Elia Barceló : a literature of cognitive estrangement / Vanessa Knights; title: Spanish underground comics and society / Anne Magnussen; title: The reworking of tales of enchantment in two novels by Carmen Martín Gaite and Esther Tusquets / Dorothy Odartey-Wellington; title: On the case of the Spanish female sleuth / Kathleen Thompson-Casado.