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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459609603321

Autore

Johnson Roberta <1942->

Titolo

Crossfire : philosophy and the novel in Spain, 1900-1934 / / Roberta Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009

©1993

ISBN

0-8131-8449-5

0-8131-4967-3

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Studies in Romance Languages ; ; 35

Disciplina

863/.6209384

Soggetti

Spanish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Philosophy in literature

Electronic books.

Spain Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Generation of '98: Early Philosophical and Personal Wars; 2. Unamuno: A Bold New Hybrid; 3. Baroja: A Solution to the Problem of Will; 4. Martínez Ruiz: An Answer to Baroja's Solution; 5. Unamuno: Last Attack on Rationalism; 6. Baroja: Farewell to the Philosophical Novel; 7. The Generation of '14: Taking the Lead; 8. Pérez de Ayala: Parody Wed to Aesthetic Theory; 9. Juan Ramón Jiménez and Gabriel Miró: Künstlerromane; 10. Salinas, Chacel, and Jarnés: The Vanguardist Philosophical Novel; Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography

IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The marriage of philosophy and fiction in the first third of Spain's twentieth century was a fertile one. It produced some truly notable offspring -- novels that cross genre boundaries to find innovative forms, and treatises that fuse literature and philosophy in new ways. In her illuminating interdisciplinary study of Spanish fiction of the ""Silver Age,"" Roberta Johnson places this important body of Spanish literature in context through a synthesis of social, literary, and philosophical history.Her examination of the work of Miguel de Unamuno, Pio Baroja,



Azorin, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Juan