The Dilemma of Modernity: Ramon Gomez De La Serna and the Spanish Modernist Novel

by McCulloch, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780820481838
• ISBN10: 0820481831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-22
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Original Scholarly Monograph

Author Biography

John A. McCulloch is a full-time lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
The Making of a Bohemian (1909--1918)	1	(28)
Introduction	1	(17)
La viuda blanca y negra (1917)	18	(8)
Notes	26	(3)
The Banquet Years I (1919--1923)	29	(60)
The Decline of Scientific Rationalism: El doctor inverosimil	35	(5)
Experimenting with Surrealism: El incongruente	40	(7)
`Living matter' and the Transcendence of Things: El secreto del Acueducto (1922--23)	47	(7)
The Poetics of Modernity: Cinelandia (1923)	54	(6)
Subverting the Crime Novel: El Chalet de las Rosas	60	(6)
The Bourgeois Don Juan and the Novel of Diminished Horizons: El Gran Hotel (1922--23)	66	(5)
Bucolic Retreat and the Lyrical Novel: La Quinta de Palmyra (1923)	71	(11)
Notes	82	(7)
The Art of Un-Making Novels: El novelista (1923)	89	(36)
Fragments and Vignettes: A Brief Overview of Ramon Gomez de la Serna's most Significant Short Stories	101	(19)
Notes	120	(5)
The Banquet Years II (1924--1929)	125	(20)
Parody and Influence in La mujer de ambar (1927)	125	(11)
Parody, the Picaresque and the Modern-day Man of Commerce: El caballero del hongo gris (1928)	136	(6)
Notes	142	(3)
Towards a Modernist Aesthetics (1930--1936)	145	(14)
Notes	158	(1)
The 1940s and Beyond	159	(18)
Nietzsche, Existentialism and El hombre perdido (1947)	161	(10)
A Brief Consideration of Piso bajo (1961)	171	(4)
Notes	175	(2)
The Poetics of Abstraction	177	(8)
Notes	184	(1)
Bibliography	185	(1)
Primary Sources	185	(2)
Secondary Sources	187