Jr. En Torno al Hombre y a sus Monstruos: Ensayos Críticos sobre la Novelística de Carlos Rojas

1. Auflage 1986
ISBN: 978-0-916379-38-4
Verlag: Digitalia
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Spanisch, 141 Seiten

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions. 

“Una valiosa aportación a la bibliografía del insigne novelista: un collage literario muy digno de Carlos Rojas.”-Concha Alborg, Hispanic Review. 

“This collection of critical essays is a timely addition to the current state of Rojas' studies.”-Margaret E. W. Jones, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;10
2;Preface;12
3;Introduction;15
4;Chapter I. A Man of Many Achievements;24
5;Chapter II. From Textbooks to Life Stories: The Non-fictional Works;34
6;Chapter III. An Extraordinary Diversity of Literary Genius: The Poetry;50
7;Chapter IV. A Literary Reputation Established: His Fiction Before 1900;66
8;Chapter V. A Literary Reputation Sustained: His Fiction After 1900;89
9;Conclusion;112
10;Appendix;116
11;Selected Bibliography;130
12;Index;136
12.1;A;136
12.2;B;136
12.3;C;136
12.4;D;136
12.5;E;137
12.6;F;137
12.7;G;137
12.8;H;137
12.9;J;137
12.10;K;137
12.11;L;137
12.12;M;138
12.13;N;138
12.14;P;138
12.15;Q;138
12.16;R;138
12.17;S;138
12.18;T;138
12.19;W;139
12.20;Y;139

Leseproben

Introduction (p. 4)

The name of Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) does not frequently appear in literary histories of America. The Oxford Companion to American Literature (1965), in a succinct entry, highlights his major accomplishments, The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917-1921) mentions him as a writer of "dainty exotics."

In A History of American Literature since 1870 (1921), Fred Lewis Pattee includes a sentence alluding to Hardy as a poet, a fairly complete bibliography of his major works, and a paragraph about him as a "romancer."

A more recent study, The Popular American Novel 1865-1920 (1980), devotes nearly eight pages to Hardy, providing a very sketchy biography, a generous analysis of But Yet a Woman including some attention to three other novels, Posse Rose, The Wind of Destiny, and His Daughter First, plus a brief critical assessment.

Despite the merits of this latest treatment, Arthur Hobson Quinn`s earlier American Fiction: An Historical and Critical Survey (1936) remains as the best consideration of Hardy because of its greater insight into the scope of his career. The Literary History of the United States (1974) includes Hardy in its bibliography only and refers the reader to Quinn`s essay.

Although he has little name-recognition today, critics praised Hardy in his own time. In 1894 an editor of the Chap-Book lauded him: "It is a matter of no small regret to me—and, I fancy, to many others,—that Mr. Arthur Sherburne Hardy finds his duties on the Cosmopolitan take up too much of his time to permit of a decent attention to original works," adding that any number of good editors are available, but not good writers.

A professor of mathematics, a diplomat, and a magazine editor, Hardy did not devote his entire energies to imaginative writing. Besides five mathematical or scientific works, he turned out two volumes of poetry, a biography, a collection of letters, miscellaneous speeches, an autobiography, and eight works of fiction. The range of this last body of writing also reflects his diversity, he wrote one historical and four realistic novels, a detective novel, and numerous short stories.

In his treatise on the novel Francis Marion Crawford theorizes that "halfa- dozen books, or less, will make a reputation, ten will sustain one, twenty are in ordinary cases a career. Although writing was not his primary career, Hardy "made a reputation" or "sustained one," depending on whether or not his non-fictional endeavors are counted.

Even though obscurity shrouds him, he provides a worthy subject for study because he serves as an example to sharpen modern perceptions concerning late nineteenth-century literary trends and tastes. In his Nobel Prize speech (1930) Sinclair Lewis prophesied: "I have, for the future of American literature, every hope and every eager belief.

We are coming out, I believe, of the stuffiness of safe, sane, and incredibly dull provincialism." Lewis predicted correctly the further demise of the genteel tradition.