By David T. Gies
This finished historical past of Spanish literature brings jointly specialists from the U.S., the united kingdom, and Spain to survey the diversity of Spanish literature from the early heart a while to the current day. The "classics" of the canon of 11 centuries of Spanish literature are absolutely lined, yet awareness can be paid to lesser recognized writers and works. This beneficial e-book includes an creation, greater than fifty titanic chapters, a chronology of background, literature and paintings, and a accomplished index.
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Certainly, any literary history organized by gender, race, theme, ideology, or even (perhaps) temporal sequences, runs the risk of falling into similar traps. If traps they are. As Brad Epps asks in his chapter on the contemporary novel, do we consider Spanish literature that which is written in Spain, in Spanish, by native-born Spaniards, or is it something else? If it is not “something else,” what does one do with literature written in the Iberian Peninsula, in the country today called “Spain,” but written in languages such as Basque, ´ or Gallego?
Also forthcoming in Neohelicon, a special issue in ¨ Memory of Gyorgy Mihaly Vajda. Rodr´ıguez Mohedano and Rodr´ıguez Mohedano, Historia, vol. i, p. 10. Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Literary history and canon formation 21 by the accidents of Spanish political history. The Napoleonic invasion of 1808 sets in motion destabilizing events on both the foreign and domestic fronts. On the one hand, the wave of successful independence movements taking place in America between 1808 and 1826 determines the crisis of the empire.
The title of Perkins’ provocative book, captures the dilemma of the writer of literary history in the modern world, less naive than his/her forebears, who were more confident of the necessity and possibility of the categorization, evaluation, and selection of literature than we are today. ´ As early as 1790 in Spain, Candido Mar´ıa Trigueros seemed to have had a sense of what the writing of literary history might encompass. Yet what provided the bedrock for his interpretation of literary history is precisely what provokes anxiety among modern literary historians.