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Juan Valera And Juan Ruiz: The Reliance Of Pepita Jiménez On The Libro De Buen Amor And La Celestina, Thomas R. Franz
Juan Valera And Juan Ruiz: The Reliance Of Pepita Jiménez On The Libro De Buen Amor And La Celestina, Thomas R. Franz
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Pepita Jimenez (1874) traces a religious young widow’s seduction of Don Luis de Vargas, a relatively naïve, young seminarian. The novel utilizes many allusions to literature of the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries in order to illustrate the type of rhetoric the young man uses in order to obscure his cooperation with her evolving plan (Lott 71-146; Amorós 35-36, 178-79). As Hoff states, “Luis’s writing […] implies that his erotic desires lie hidden, to be discovered or ferreted out by the discerning reader” (215). This deception continues “until it becomes the predominant issue of the novel” (217), ultimately producing the …
“Cada Espíritu Es Un Libro”: Spiritualism In Turn-Of-The-Century Spain, Alicia Cerezo Paredes
“Cada Espíritu Es Un Libro”: Spiritualism In Turn-Of-The-Century Spain, Alicia Cerezo Paredes
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On October 9, 1861, one of history’s last autos de fe was celebrated by the Spanish Catholic Church in Barcelona. The site chosen, an esplanade leading to a fortification known as the Ciutadella, was already famous for inquisitional autos dating back to the Middle Ages (Abend 518). This time the moral spectacle involved the burning of three hundred books confiscated at the French border by order of the Bishop of Barcelona. Each of these books concerned a particular and relatively new religious movement known as Spiritualism. Twenty-seven years after the official abolition of the Inquisition, Catholic orthodoxy still sought to …
Saintly Patriotism: Vicente Grez And The Women Of The Chilean Independence Movement, Tina Melstrom
Saintly Patriotism: Vicente Grez And The Women Of The Chilean Independence Movement, Tina Melstrom
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The Chilean Independence Movement (1810-1823) is an epoch that has captured the popular imagination of twentieth and twenty-first century Chileans; the stories of the próceres patrios (national patriotic heroes) have resounded in Chilean popular culture.1 However, the canonical body of literature that deals with this revolutionary epoch in Chilean history often focuses primarily on the victorious heroes—and not the heroines— who ultimately established the independent Chilean state. As reporter Natalia Núñez, a writer for Revista Ya of the top-selling Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, rightly notes: “Detrás de ellos [los héroes de la independencia], hubo mujeres que fueron confidentes, …
Narcotic Fictions: The Implosion Of Narrative And Politics In Benito Pérez Galdós’S La Incógnita/Realidad (1888-1889), Bryan Cameron
Narcotic Fictions: The Implosion Of Narrative And Politics In Benito Pérez Galdós’S La Incógnita/Realidad (1888-1889), Bryan Cameron
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While critics tend to classify Benito Pérez Galdós as a realist novelist, a distant cousin of Dickens, Balzac, or Tolstoy, such a generalization undercuts much of his literary output that challenges the constraints of realist discourse in late-nineteenth-century Spain. Galdós was, for many years, one of Europe’s most prolific realists and the first arbiter of what constituted modern Spanish fiction following the publication of his essay “Observaciones sobre la novela contemporánea en España” (1870) in which he argues for the pioneering of a new, national novel.1 Nevertheless, from the outset of his novelistic career, Galdós tests the limits of …