Idle fictions : the Hispanic vanguard novel, 1926-1934
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Idle fictions : the Hispanic vanguard novel, 1926-1934
Duke University Press, 1993, c1982
Expanded ed
- : pbk
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Originally published 1982
Table of contents reads: Introduction xi
Table of contents reads: Index 179; though pagination reads until 177
Bibliography: p. [159]-168
Index: p. [179]-[184]
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Perez Firmat argues, though this genre saw itself as recreative and interstitial, it deliberately precipitated "a class war not between social classes but between literary classes." Concentrating on source material not widely available, Perez Firmat reconstructs the reception these novels received at the time of their publication, then develops a reading of them based on the intellectual context of this reception. A new preface and an appendix on vanguard biographies have been added to this paperback edition.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
Introduction xi
Part 1: Criticism
1. The Vanguard Novel as a Discursive Category 3
2. A Pneumatic Aesthetics 40
Part 2: Novels
3. Closed World 67
4. Decharacterization 81
5. From Palimpsest to Pastiche 100
6. The Novel as Matrass 121
Conclusion: Hermes in and out of the Subway 139
Notes 143
Bibliography 154
Appendix: Vanguard Saints 169
Index 179
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