Imagined Truths : Realism in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture.

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Nineteeth-Century Spanish Realism: Root and Branch -- 1. Arabella's Veil: Translating Realism in Don Quijote con faldas (1808) -- 2. Between Costumbrista Sketch and Short Story: Armando Palacio Valdés's Aguas fuertes -- 3. Money, Capital, Monstrosity: Metaphorical Matrices of Realism in Antonio Flores's Ayer, hoy y mañana -- Part Two: Modernity and the Parameters of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism -- 4. The Physician in the Narratives of Galdós and Clarín -- 5. Travelling by Streetcar through Madrid with Galdósand Pardo Bazán -- 6. Urban Hyperrealism: Galdós's Dickensian Descriptions of Madrid -- 7 Observed versus Imaginative Communities: Creative Realismin Galdós's Misericordia -- Part Three: Stretching the Limits of Spanish Realism -- 8. Colonialism, Collages, and Thick Description: Pardo Bazán and the Rhetoric of Detail -- 9. Embodied Minds: Critical Erotic Decisions in La Regenta -- 10. María Zambrano on Women, Realism, and Freedom -- Part Four: The Challenges of Genre: Spanish Realism beyond the Novel -- 11. Writing (Un)clear Code: The Letters and Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós -- 12. "Volvía Galdós triunfante": Fortunata y Jacinta on Stage (1930) -- 13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé's "Historia de detectives" -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

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