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Title The Cambridge history of Spanish literature / edited by David T. Gies
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 863 pages)
Series Cambridge histories online
Cambridge histories online
Contents I INTRODUCTION -- The Funes effect: making literary history / David T. Gies -- II HISTORY AND CANONICITY -- Literary history and canon formation / Wadda C. Ríos-Font -- III THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD -- Medieval Spanish literature in the twenty-first century / John Dagenais -- Beginnings / Maria Rosa Menocal -- The poetry of medieval Spain / Andrew M. Beresford -- Medieval Spanish prose / James Burke -- The medieval theatre: between scriptura and theatrica / Charlotte D. Stern -- IV EARLY MODERN SPAIN: RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE -- Renaissance and Baroque: continuity and transformation in early modern Spain / Jeremy Robbins -- Religious literature in early modern Spain / Alison P. Weber -- Renaissance poetry / Julian Weiss -- The antecedents of the novel in sixteenth-century Spain / E. Michael Gerli -- Miguel de Cervantes / Anthony J. Close -- The making of Baroque poetry / Mary Malcolm Gaylord -- The development of national theatre / Margaret R. Greer -- Lope Félix de Vega Carpio / Victor F. Dixon -- Pedro Calderón de la Barca / Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros -- Didactic prose, history, politics, life writing, convent writing, Crónicas de Indias / Jorge Checa -- V THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND NEOCLASSICISM -- Spain and Enlightenment / Philip Deacon -- Eighteenth-century Neoclassicism / Philip Deacon -- Eighteenth-century prose writing / Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos -- Eighteenth-century poetry / Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos -- Neoclassical versus popular theatre / Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos -- VI THE FORGING OF A NATION: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- Romanticism in Spain / Derek W. Flitter -- The theatre in Romantic Spain / David T. Gies -- Mariano José de Larra / Gregorio C. Martín -- Romantic poetry / Susan Kirkpatrick -- Romantic prose, journalism, and costumbrismo / Michael Iarocci -- Benito Pérez Galdós / Harriet S. Turner -- The Realist novel / Stephen Miller -- The Naturalist novel / Stephen Miller -- The theatre in Spain 1850-1900 / David T. Gies -- Poetry in the second half of the nineteenth century / María Ángeles Naval -- VII THE MODERN, MODERNISMO, AND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY -- Nineteenth-century women writers / Lou Charnon-Deutsch -- The Catalan Renaixença / Joan Ramon Resina -- Great masters of Spanish Modernism / Nil Santiáñez -- The poetry of Modernismo in Spain / Richard A. Cardwell -- Modernism in Catalonia / Joan Ramon Resina -- Modernist narrative in the 1920s / C.A. Longhurst -- Noucentisme / Joan Ramon Resina -- Ideas, aesthetics, historical studies / Nelson R. Orringer -- The Catalan Avant-Garde / Joan Ramon Resina -- VIII TWENTIETH-CENTURY SPAIN AND THE CIVIL WAR -- Poetry between 1920 and 1940 / Enric Bou -- Prose: early twentieth century / Nigel Dennis -- The commercial stage, 1900-1936 / Dru Dougherty -- Theatrical reform and renewal, 1900-1936 / Dru Dougherty -- Federico García Lorca / Andrew A. Anderson -- IX IN AND OUT OF FRANCO SPAIN -- The literature of Franco Spain, 1939-1975 / Michael Ugarte -- Twentieth-century literature in exile / José María Naharro Calderón -- Prose in Franco Spain / Janet Perez -- Poetry in Franco Spain / Guillermo Carnero -- Theatre in Franco Spain / Martha Halsey -- Film and censorship under Franco, 1937-1975 / Marvin D'Lugo -- X POST-FRANCO SPANISH LITERATURE AND FILM -- Spanish literature between the Franco and post-Franco eras / José-Carlos Mainer -- Post-Franco poetry / Juan Cano Ballesta -- Spanish prose, 1975-2002 / Brad Epps -- Post-Franco theatre / Sharon G. Feldman -- Spanish literature and the language of new media / Susan Martin-Márquez
Summary Includes essays that cover the full range of Spanish poetry, prose, and theater from the early Middle Ages to the present day. Covers the classics of the canon of eleven centuries of Spanish literature, from Berceo, Cervantes and Calderón to García Lorca and Martín Gaite, but also pays attention to lesser known writers and works. Charts a wide range of literary periods and movements and concludes with a consideration of the influences of film and new media on modern Spanish literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 756-800) and index
Notes English
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Subject Spanish literature -- History and criticism.
Spanish literature.
Bellettrie.
Spaans.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Gies, David Thatcher
LC no. 2004045601
ISBN 9780511468407
0511468407
9781139055499
1139055496
9781139055499