El Quijote en Francia en los siglos XVII y XVIII

El Quijote en Francia en los siglos XVII y XVIII
Author: Maurice Bardon
Publisher: Universidad de Alicante
Total Pages: 1025
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 8497170903

La traducción de El Quijote en Francia en los siglos XVII y XVIII, de Maurice Bardon, permite dar a conocer al lector español una obra de singular importancia, publicada originalmente en París, en 1931. Desde entonces, el estudio de Bardon se ha considerado un texto de referencia en el ámbito del hispanismo francés, con una gran influencia posterior. Esta edición no sólo constituye un testimonio del impacto que tuvo el Quijote en la Francia del Clasicismo y del Siglo de las Luces, sino que ofrece sugerentes claves interpretativas sobre el libro de Cervantes. El análisis de las traducciones del Quijote en el país vecino, así como su repercusión en reconocidos novelistas, filósofos y dramaturgos, son algunos de los aspectos que se abordan en este apasionante recorrido por la recepción de la obra de Cervantes desde 1605 hasta 1815. Bardon también plantea la polémica relación entre el texto original y el Quijote de Avellaneda, y las sucesivas relecturas del personaje cervantino en la encrucijada entre la Ilustración y el Romanticismo. La edición se acompaña con un estudio introductorio de Françoise Étienvre, que presenta la trayectoria intelectual de Bardon y sitúa al libro en el destacado lugar que le corresponde. Françoise Etienvre es catedrática de literatura y civilización castellana (siglos XVIII-XIX) en la universidad de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, y directora de un Centro de Investigación sobre la historia cultural española en los siglos mencionados. Ha publicado varios libros y artículos sobre la Ilustración, estudiada tanto en sus aspectos literarios como históricos. Se ha interesado, en particular, por la fortuna del Quijote en el siglo XVIII, por cuestiones de traducción, de retórica y poética en la misma época, y por Antonio de Capmany al que ha dedicado una monografía (Ed. Champion, 2001). Del mismo Capmany editó el famoso Centinela contra franceses (Tamesis Books, 1988; reed. Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2008).

Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)

Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London)
Author: Nicolás Bas Martín
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004359524

In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas examines the image of Spain in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Paris and London in particular. His material has been scoured from an exhaustive interrogation of the records of the book trade. He refers to booksellers’ catalogues, private collections, auctions, and other sources of information in order to reconstruct the country’s cultural image. Rarely have these sources been searched for Spanish books, and never have they been as exhaustively exploited as they are in Bas’ book. Both England and France were conversant with some very negative ideas about Spain. The Black Legend, dating back to the sixteenth century, condemned Spain as repressive and priest-ridden. Bas shows however, that an alternative, more sympathetic, vision ran parallel with these negative views. His bibliographical approach brings to light the Spanish books that were bought, sold and ultimately read. The impression thus obtained is likely to help us understand not only Spain’s past, but also something of its present.

Imagined Truths

Imagined Truths
Author: Mary Coffey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2019-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487505175

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.