El tiempo y los márgenes: Europa como utop?a y como amenaza en la literatura espa?ola

by Jes?s Torrecilla

Overview

Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a foreign influence. The double movement of imitation and appropriation generates an original hybrid literature that demonstrates the decisive importance of social identity in the configuration of literary works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807892572
Publisher:	UNC Department of Romance Studies
Publication date:	01/01/1996
Series:	North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures , #253
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)
Language:	Spanish