The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals)
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Graham Good

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 131763778X

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First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the emergence of empiricism in science, but the main focus of Graham Good’s study is on the inner workings of the essay itself. Drawing on criticism by Adorno and Lukacs, Graham Good presents the genre as an expression of individualism, freed from tradition and authority, in which the self constructs itself and its object through independent observation. Through analysis of the work of such essayists as Montaigne, Bacon, Virginia Wolf, T. S. Eliot and George Orwell, the potential of the genre for independence and individualism is illustrated, and the essay is resituated as an intellectually challenging form of creative and critical writing.

Spanish Realism
Spanish Realism

Author: Jeremy T. Medina

Publisher: Potomac, Md. : José Porrúa Turanzas, North American Division

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language
A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language

Author: Donald William Bleznick

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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Encompasses a broad spectrum of references to general bibliographical guides, bibliographies of Hispanic literature, literary dictionaries and encyclopedias, histories of Hispanic literatures, linguistics, and a guide to scholarly journals. Includes author and title indexes.

Spanish New York Narratives 1898-1936
Spanish New York Narratives 1898-1936

Author: David Miranda-Barreiro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1351548115

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, New York caught the attention of Spanish writers. Many of them visited the city and returned to tell their experience in the form of a literary text. That is the case of Pruebas de Nueva York (1927) by Jose Moreno Villa (1887-1955), El crisol de las razas (1929) by Teresa de Escoriaza (1891-1968), Anticipolis (1931) by Luis de Oteyza (1883-1961) and La ciudad automatica (1932) by Julio Camba (1882-1962). In tune with similar representations in other European works, the image of New York given in these texts reflects the tensions and anxieties generated by the modernisation embodied by the United States. These authors project onto New York their concerns and expectations about issues of class, gender and ethnicity that were debated at the time, in the context of the crisis of Spanish national identity triggered by the end of the empire in 1898.

Metaphors of Spain
Metaphors of Spain

Author: Javier Moreno-Luzón

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1785334670

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The history of twentieth-century Spanish nationalism is a complex one, placing a set of famously distinctive regional identities against a backdrop of religious conflict, separatist tensions, and the autocratic rule of Francisco Franco. And despite the undeniably political character of that story, cultural history can also provide essential insights into the subject. Metaphors of Spain brings together leading historians to examine Spanish nationalism through its diverse and complementary cultural artifacts, from “formal” representations such as the flag to music, bullfighting, and other more diffuse examples. Together they describe not a Spanish national “essence,” but a nationalism that is constantly evolving and accommodates multiple interpretations.