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Dismantling Romantic Utopias: María Beneyto's Poetry Between Tradition And Protest , Candelas S. Gala
Dismantling Romantic Utopias: María Beneyto's Poetry Between Tradition And Protest , Candelas S. Gala
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Despite the fact that Vicente Aleixandre considered her one of the best young authors of the generation of social poets of the 1950s, María Beneyto's writings have been disregarded by critics. While sharing the social concerns of the other poets of her generation, Beneyto's poetry also reveals the dilemma of the woman author facing a cultural tradition that espouses pre-established models for her conduct and identity patterned mostly in accordance with tenets of Romanticism. Beneyto resorts to those models as projections of herself as she seeks to articulate her own identity as woman and author. The objective of this essay …
Miguel Delibes' Parábola Del Náufrago: Utopia Redreamed, H. L. Boudreau
Miguel Delibes' Parábola Del Náufrago: Utopia Redreamed, H. L. Boudreau
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Delibes' anti-utopian novel is analyzed from a triple perspective: its internal exegesis, the author's literary development, and the three-phase Utopian genre. Artistic versus thematic orientation is examined via parabolic technique, linguistic characterization, and Parábola's internalization as its author's nightmare. The latter facilitates novelistic exposition through the control and order inherent in the associative language and logic of the dream. Delibes frees his Utopian world from the perquisites of reality by creating an estetic dimension and psychological verisimilitude uncommon in the genre.