Imagined truths Versteeg, Margot; Coffey, Mary L
Imagined truths,
2019, 20190516, 2019, 2019-05-19, 2019-05-09, Letnik:
43, 43.
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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.
This essay seeks to open a dialogue about reading strategies and cultural assumptions with a recent critical study of Emilia Pardo Bazán's 1889 novel Insolation. It references a resurgence of ...appreciation for the practice of Close Reading in the field of English literary studies to propose the significance of reading detail in the novel. A close reading of the key passages of Insolation identified by the article as underlying the novel's tripartite structure calls into question the proposed trajectory of transgressions from linguistic, to sexual, to social. This essay also suggests that our twenty-first century norms of interpersonal relations, with their overwhelming preference for using first names, undermine the careful distinctions and calibrated distances between individuals that comprise the patterns of social interaction communicated by Pardo Bazán, making reading today more challenging and requiring ever greater precision in our reading practices. By highlighting the novel's own codes of linguistic, social, and especially sexual transgression, together with close attention to its pattern of details, centered here on "el bulto bianco" this essay proposes a revision of the structural sequence of transgressions and hence argues for a rereading of the novel with its indeterminacies, gaps, and openendedness. (MB) Este ensayo establece un diálogo con un artículo redente sobre la novela Insolatión (1889) de Emilia Pardo Bazán en torno a las estrategias de lectura y suposiciones culturales. Dicho estudio propone un resurgimiento y revalorización de la práctica de close reading en el campo de estudios literarios del inglés para examinar la importancia de leer los detalles de la novela. Una close reading de los pasajes clave que apoyan la estructura tripartita de Insolation, segun el articulo mencionado, cuestiona la trayectoria de transgresiones, que van de la linguistica, a la sexual, a la social. Sugiere también que las normas de relaciones interpersonales del sigio veintiuno, que dan una preferencia casi sin limites al uso del tuteo, socavan las distinciones y distancias calibradas entre individuos que forman los patrones de interacción social comunicados por Pardo Bazán. Como resultado difìculta la lectura y requière una precision aun mas grande en las prácticas lectoras. Con una fina atención a los códigos lingiiisticos, sociales, y sobre todo sexuales, junto con el entramado de detalles que en este caso se centra en "el bulto bianco", propongo una revision de la secuencia estructural de transgresiones y, por extension, arguyo a favor de una lectura revisada de la novela.
Spain’s two leading late nineteenth-century authors published short fictional works in the wake of the introduction into Madrid of one of the visual emblems of Spain’s new material reality and ...nascent modernity, the streetcar. Benito Pérez Galdós’s short novel La novela en el tranvía The Novel on the Streetcar highlighted this innovation in Madrid’s urban transport. Published in La Ilustración de Madrid on 30 November and 15 December 1871, within six months of the inauguration of Madrid’s first streetcar line, Galdós’s novella continues to attract critical attention from diverse perspectives. Elizabeth Amann avers that it is “one of the earliest
