Contributor
Ardila, J. A. G. editor of compilation.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintOxford, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Imprint2015
Descriptionx, 400 pages ; 24 cm
Note:A concise introduction to the history of the Spanish novel / J.A. Garrido Ardila -- The novel before the novel in the sixteenth-century Spain / E. Michael Gerli -- The chivalric romance in the sixteenth century / Simone Pinet -- Roads untaken : the Spanish picaresque novel / Edward H. Friedman -- Consequences of Don Quixote : the bearable lightness of Cervantes' influence / Anthony J. Cascardi -- Spanish fiction of the seventeenth century / Howard Mancing -- The fear and fascination of María de Zayas / Marina S. Brownlee -- The Spanish novel in the eighteenth century / Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos -- The romantic historical novel : a case study of Enrique Gil y Carrasco's El señor de Bembibre / Michael Iarocci -- The naturalist novel in Spain : nationalism, morality, and aesthetics / Luis Álvarez-Castro -- On the matter of inner realism : Clarín's La regenta and Galdós' Fortunata y Jacinta / Noël Valis -- The life and works of Benito Pérez Galdós / Michael P. Predmore -- Quixotes and chimeras in the novels of Emolia Pardo Bazán / Denise DuPont -- The modernist novel in Spain / J.A. Garrido Ardila and Elizabeth Tetley -- The novels of Pío Baroja / Donald L. Shaw -- The avant-garde novel : the search for new concepts of aesthetic and social engagement / Susan Larson -- The banquet years of the Spanish novel : by invitation only / Germán Gullón.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"The origins of the Spanish novel date back to the early picaresque novels and Don Quixote, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the history of the genre in Spain presents the reader with such iconic works as Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta, Clarín's La Regenta, or Unamuno's Mist. A History of the Spanish Novel traces the developments of Spanish prose fiction in order to offer a comprehensive and detailed account of this important literary tradition. It opens with an introductory chapter that examines the evolution of the novel in Spain, with particular attention to the rise and emergence of the novel as a genre, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the bearing of Golden-Age fiction in later novelists of all periods. The introduction contextualizes the Spanish novel in the circumstances and milestones of Spain's history, and in the wider setting of European literature. The volume is comprised of chapters presented diachronically, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century and others concerned with specific traditions (the chivalric romance, the picaresque, the modernist novel, the avant-gardist novel) and with some of the most salient authors (Cervantes, Zayas, Pardo Bazán Galdós, and Baroja). A History of the Spanish Novel takes the reader across the centuries to reveal the captivating life of the Spanish novel tradition, in all its splendour, and its phenomenal contribution to Western literature"--Back cover of book jacket.
