Quixotic Modernists: Reading Gender in Tristana, Trigo and Martínez SierraBucknell University Press, 2007 - 308 pàgines Quixotic Modernists gives close readings of two novels by two little-studied writers of the early twentieth century in Spain, Felipe Trigo's Las ingenuas (1901) and Maria Martinez Sierra's Tu eres la paz (1906), in relation to the canonical Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. This study shows the modern message (regarding gender), and modernist qualities of the prose of these works. Included are discussions of Quijote intertexts, proverbial language and tactics, the angel and the mujer-nina, flower, water, and animal imagery, and visual arts in relation to gender definition. Also included are contemporary responses to the novels and material about the authors' lives and Spain's social conditions in the early twentieth century. Quixotic Modernists integrates these themes into a study of the novelization of difficulties in transforming contemporary gender and class roles. In all three authors' works, this process of change in roles for both men and women becomes a quixotic enterprise, in which artists as/and characters search to reconnect with an elusive material, social body. |
Continguts
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15 | |
24 | |
Words Coins and the Carnival Body | 30 |
The Bodies Behind the Shadows | 36 |
Modernist Homes and Landscapes | 41 |
Galdoss TristanaFluctuating Realism and Fragmented Bodies | 46 |
Between Don Quijote and Don Juan | 49 |
The Artistic Nature of Love | 143 |
The Spirit of the Matter | 168 |
Conclusion | 170 |
The Heart of the Matter María Martínez Sierra | 173 |
Questioning Authorship | 176 |
La tristeza del Quijote | 181 |
The Mujerniñas Garden and the Nature of Flower Arrangements | 190 |
Of Heart Health Home and Peaceful Love | 198 |
Wanting to See and to Speak | 63 |
Subjective Landscapes | 73 |
Hens and Doves | 89 |
Puntos SuspensivosA Space for Change | 94 |
The Spirit of the Matter Felipe Trigo | 99 |
The Engineer the Physician and the Dandy | 109 |
The Passionate Hero and the Nature of Women | 129 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
active Agustín Alajara Aldaraca amor Amparo Ana María Ana's ángel artistic Bakhtin Barcelona becomes Carmelina carnival Cervantes Ceylan chivalric conflict constructs contrast critical describes dialogic Dijkstra discourse domestic space Don Lope Don Quijote Doña donjuanesque Emilia Pardo Bazán emotional eres la paz erotic eroticized España española Felipe Trigo female feminine feminist figure fin de siglo Flora flowers Fortunata y Jacinta Galdós Galdós's García Lara gender roles Gregorio Gregorio Martínez Sierra Gullón hogar Horacio Ibid ideal ingenuas intellectual Labanyi landscape language language of flowers literary literatura looks Lope's lovers Luciano Madrid male María Martínez Sierra Martínez Sierra's masculine material body metaphorical middle-class modern modernismo modernist monologic mujer mujer-niña narrative narrator nature niña novel novelistic oblique original Spanish Pardo Bazán passion protagonist proverbial Quijote's readers reflects result Ricardo Gullón Sancho sexual social body Teresa tion Tristana Valis vida violence voice women writing young woman
Passatges populars
Pàgina 23 - There is a sound of rending in every tradition, and it is as though the morrow would not link itself with to-day. Things as they are totter and plunge, and they are suffered to reel and fall, because man is weary, and there is no faith that it is worth an effort to uphold them.