Eduardo Mendoza: A New Look

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Contributions by academics from Spain and the US touch on the novels and other work of Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza, covering the period from 1975 to the present. Contributors take a variety of critical positions, often reaching different conclusions about the same texts. Eight of the 14 essays are in Spanish. Oxford teaches foreign languages at the University of North Texas; Knutson teaches in the Department of Modern Languages at Xavier University. Annotation c. Book News,...
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Contributions by academics from Spain and the US touch on the novels and other work of Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza, covering the period from 1975 to the present. Contributors take a variety of critical positions, often reaching different conclusions about the same texts. Eight of the 14 essays are in Spanish. Oxford teaches foreign languages at the University of North Texas; Knutson teaches in the Department of Modern Languages at Xavier University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
I Parody/Humor
1 Parody of the Margins: An Introduction to Eduardo Mendoza 7
2 La configuracion de la farsa en una novela humoristica posmoderna: El laberinto de las aceitunas 17
3 Transformismo y parodia: Una [divina] comedia ligera 31
4 The Parodic Scourge in Spain's novela negra: The "Cases" of Two of Eduardo Mendoza's Detectives 47
II Gender roles
5 Sexualidad y sacralidad: reescritura de Los pazos de Ulloa en El ano del diluvio 63
6 La mujer en la narrativa de Eduardo Mendoza 77
7 Female Voices and the Feminist Novel: Gender Roles in La isla inaudita 91
III Creativity and "THE Canon"
8 Del creador literario como lector opinado y como (in)voluntario critico canonico 105
9 La isla inaudita and El ano del diluvio: Eduardo Mendoza's Romance Novels 117
10 Literature, Architecture and the Canon: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Eduardo Mendoza 129
IV Historicity
11 De la transgresion historica en La verdad sobre el caso Savolta de Eduardo Mendoza 147
12 The Myth of the Great Deluge, the Postmodern Novel, and Eduardo Mendoza's El ano del diluvio 159
13 Los comienzos del cine en La ciudad de los prodigios de Eduardo Mendoza y Ragtime de Edgar L. Doctorow 171
14 Teatro historico y contexto sociocultural: Restauracion de Eduardo Mendoza 183
Bibliography of Mendoza Critical Material 197
List of Contributors 223
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