Imagined Truths
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Edited by:
Mary L. Coffey
About this book
Written by the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, the essays in Imagined Truths provide an analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism.
Author / Editor information
Mary Coffey is an associate professor of Spanish and dean at Pomona College.
Versteeg Margot :
Margot Versteeg the interim director of the Humanities Program and associate chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas.
Reviews
"Imagined Truths is a major contribution to the field, especially given the emergent interest in nineteenth-century Spanish realism budding in other literary fields. Its contributions are diverse and its scope wide-ranging. Mary Coffey and Margot Versteeg collectively represent some of the most influential scholars of Spanish realism."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - Part One. Nineteeth-Century Spanish Realism: Root and Branch
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1. Arabella’s Veil: Translating Realism in Don Quijote con faldas (1808)
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2. Between Costumbrista Sketch and Short Story: Armando Palacio Valdés’s Aguas fuertes
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3. Money, Capital, Monstrosity: Metaphorical Matrices of Realism in Antonio Flores’s Ayer, hoy y mañana
80 - Part Two. Modernity and the Parameters of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism
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4. The Physician in the Narratives of Galdós and Clarín
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5. Travelling by Streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo Bazán
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6. Urban Hyperrealism: Galdós’s Dickensian Descriptions of Madrid
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7. Observed versus Imaginative Communities: Creative Realism in Galdós’s Misericordia
191 - Part Three. Stretching the Limits of Spanish Realism
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8. Colonialism, Collages, and Thick Description: Pardo Bazán and the Rhetoric of Detail
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9. Embodied Minds: Critical Erotic Decisions in La Regenta
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10. María Zambrano on Women, Realism, and Freedom
259 - Part Four. The Challenges of Genre: Spanish Realism beyond the Novel
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11. Writing (Un)clear Code: The Letters and Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós
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12. “Volvía Galdós triunfante”: Fortunata y Jacinta on Stage (1930)
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13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé’s “Historia de detectives”
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Contributors
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Index
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