Transparent Simulacra: Spanish Fiction, 1902-1926The development of basic textual strategies in Spanish fiction from 1902 to 1926 is the focus of this study. Challenging traditional views of the relationships between the literature produced by the Generation of 1898 and the Spanish vanguard movement, Spires traces through analyses of select works a process of evolution beginning at the turn of the century and continuing into the 1920s. Spires demonstrates how the somewhat tentative strategies of the first decade became more daring in the second. As opposed to the extant historical, autobiographical, and thematic surveys of this period, Transparent Simulacra features structuralist and post-structuralist readings of fiction by Baroja, Azorín, Unamuno, Pérez de Ayala, Gómez de Serna, Jarnés, and Salinas. These approaches offer not only revisionist views of a literary period but also revisionist readings of some of Spain's best-known fiction. |
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José Martínez Ruiz La voluntad | 13 |
Miguel de Unamuno Amor y pedagogía | 26 |
Ramón Pérez de Ayala La caída de los Limones | 57 |
Ramón del ValleInclán Tirano Banderas | 90 |
Ramón Gómez de la Serna El novelista | 108 |
Pedro Salinas Víspera del gozo | 130 |
1988 | 146 |
Bibliography | 167 |
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