Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)

Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)
Author: Noël Maureen Valis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1855660822

Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regime, but his reputation has now achieved classic status in Spain. Clearly related to this is the great increase in the number of translations - Julian Barnes called La Regenta 'the foreign classic tardily discovered'. This bibliography picks up where the first one left off in 1984. It is divided into primary material and secondary material. Primary material includes: Anthologies and Selections; Criticism; Novels; Short Story Collections; Plays; Correspondence; Prologues; Reprints; Translations; and Miscellaneous, with two new categories: autograph manuscripts and iconography.

The Academy

The Academy
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1891
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel

A Companion to the Spanish Picaresque Novel
Author: Edward H. Friedman
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Picaresque literature, Spanish
ISBN: 1855663678

Written by an international group of scholars, this edited collection provides an overview of the Spanish picaresque from its origins in tales of lowborn adventurers to its importance for the modern novel, along with consideration of the debates that the picaresque has inspired.

Adapting Spanish Classics for the New Millennium

Adapting Spanish Classics for the New Millennium
Author: Linda M. Willem
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-08-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3031048156

The twenty-first-century's turn away from fidelity-based adaptations toward more innovative approaches has allowed adapters from Spain, Argentina, and the United States to draw upon Spain's rich body of nineteenth-century classics to address contemporary concerns about gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, celebrity, immigration, identity, social justice, and domestic violence. This book provides a snapshot of visual adaptations in the first two decades of the new millennium, examining how novelistic material from the past has been remediated for today's viewers through film, television, theater, opera, and the graphic novel. Its theoretical approach refines the binary view of adapters as either honoring or opposing their source texts by positing three types of adaptation strategies: salvaging (which preserves old stories by giving them renewed life for modern audiences), utilizing (which draws upon a pre-existing text for an alternative purpose, building upon the story and creating a shift in emphasis without devaluing the source material), and appropriation (which involves a critique of the source text, often with an attempt to dismantle its authority). Special attention is given to how adapters address audiences that are familiar with the source novels, and those that are not. This examination of the vibrant afterlife of classic literature will be of interest to scholars and educators in the fields of adaptation, media, Spanish literature, cultural studies, performance, and the graphic arts.

Sacred Realism

Sacred Realism
Author: Noël Valis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300152345

In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.