| Hacia La Novela Nueva: Essays on the Spanish Avant-Garde Novel Contributor(s): Lough, Francis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3906765903 ISBN-13: 9783906765907 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $82.51 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: December 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 863.620 |
| LCCN: 00066384 |
| Physical Information: 220 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Central Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ram n G mez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of Jos Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use of the term 'dehumanisation'. Other essays focus on individual works or individual writers (Benjam n Jarn s, Antonio Espina, Mario Verdaguer, C sar Arconada) to explore a range of topics including the links between experimental writing in Spain and in other countries, the metafictional novel, the demise of the hero, the novelist as a professional writer, and finally the decline of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain in the 1930s as writers abandoned experimental fiction, turned to writing more socially - or politically - committed works or contributed to the new vogue of novelised biographies. |
