Imagined truths: realism in modern Spanish literature and culture

Mary L. Coffey; Margot Versteeg

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Imagined truths: realism in modern Spanish literature and culture

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Información General

Autores: Mary L. Coffey (ed. lit.), Margot Versteeg (ed. lit.)
Editores: University of Toronto, University of Toronto Press
Año de publicación: 2019
País: Canadá
Idioma: inglés
ISBN: 9781487505172, 9781487531690, 9781487531683
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Reseñas

Ha sido reseñado en:
- Mary L. Coffey and Margot Versteeg (eds). Imagined truths: realism in modern Spanish literature and culture
  Daniel Brown (res.)
  CiberLetras: revista de crítica literaria y de cultura, ISSN-e 1523-1720, Nº. 45, 2021, págs. 71-77
- Imagined truths: realism in modern Spanish literature and culture edited by Mary L. Coffey and Margot Versteeg, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019, vi + 398 pp., $90 (hardback), ISBN13 978-1487505172
  Stephen Miller
  Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, ISSN 1463-6204, ISSN-e 1469-9818, Vol. 22, Nº. 3, 2021, págs. 421-423

Resumen

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.

Imagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism. Bringing together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, this collection offers new approaches to literary and cultural criticism and reveals how Spanish realism, far from imitative of other European movements, engaged in complex and modern concepts of representation and mimesis.

Imagined Truths acknowledges the critical importance of women writers and contemporary approaches to questions of gender. The essays address the impact of economics on our perceptions of reality and our constructions of everyday life, and they argue for the importance of emotions in the social construction of individual identity. Most importantly, the essays acknowledge the post-imperial turn in literary studies.

Addressing a broad range of authors, works, and topics, including the continued relevance of Cervantes’s Don Quijote and the way Spanish realism moved beyond narrative to inhabit the spaces of both theatre and film, Imagined Truths comprises a series of meditations on new ways of understanding the unique place of realism in Spanish cultural history. Offering insights for specialists in a wide range of disciplines – literature, cultural studies, gender studies, history, philosophy – this collection is equally important for readers just becoming acquainted with realist narrative as a central component of Spanish literary history.