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Avant-garde cultural practices in Spain (1914-1936) : the challenge of modernity
\"This book offers a critical reinterpretation of the Spanish avant-garde, focusing on narrative, transculturality, and intermediality. Narrative, because it prioritizes the analysis of prose over poetry, against the traditional use of critical literature on the subject up to this point. Transculturality, because the Spanish avant-garde simply cannot be understood without the acknowledgement of its multi-linguistic reality and the transnational scope of the experience of modernism in Europe--of which Spain was an integral yet underexposed component. And intermediality, because the interrelations of painting, photography, film, and literature articulate a correlation and mutual affect among different media, creating a rich cultural tapestry that needs to be addressed. Contributors: Rosa Berland, Jennifer Duprey, Marcos Eymar, Regina Galasso, Eduardo Gregori, Juan Herrero-Senés, John McCulloch, Andrés Pérez-Simón, Lynn Purkey, Domingo Ródenas de Moya, Evelyn Scaramella and Antonio Sáez Delgado\"--Provided by publisher.
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Avant-Garde Cultural Practices in Spain (1914–1936)
This book offers a critical reinterpretation of the Spanish avant-garde, focusing on narrative, transculturality, and intermediality. Narrative, because it prioritizes the analysis of prose over poetry, against the traditional use of critical literature on the subject up to this point. Transculturality, because the Spanish avant-garde simply cannot be understood without the acknowledgement of its multi-linguistic reality and the transnational scope of the experience of Modernism in Europe - of which Spain was an integral yet underexposed component. And intermediality, because the interrelations of painting, photography, film, and literature articulate a correlation and mutual affect among different media, creating a rich cultural tapestry that needs to be addressed. Contributors: Rosa Berland, Jennifer Duprey, Marcos Eymar, Regina Galasso, Eduardo Gregori, Juan Herrero-Senés, John McCulloch, Andrés Pérez-Simón, Lynn Purkey, Domingo Ródenas de Moya, Evelyn Scaramella and Antonio Sáez Delgado.
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Humour and Scepticism: The First Decade of Science Fiction in Spain
This article aims to provide a critical overview of the science fiction works published in Spain during the 1870s, a country often overlooked in discussions of the genre. I will discuss major trends, authors and works, situating them within their historical and cultural context, and drawing comparisons with examples from other western literatures.1 In contrast with similar overviews, provided by Nil Santiáñez-Tió (1994), Geraldine Lawless (2011; 2015) and Juan Molina Porras (2018), I will focus not only on novels but also give attention to drama and other forms of popular culture. Although the authors of the 1870s were unaware that they were contributing to what we now term ‘science fiction’ (given the lack of an established nomenclature, definition, or set of guidelines), they were conscious of the novelty in their approaches. These authors explored new themes and portrayed reality in unconventional ways. In 1864, Jules Verne remarked that Edgar Allan Poe ‘created a distinct literary genre all his own’ (qtd Evans 2009: 16), and noted that his own work was written ‘in a new style’ (17), which he termed le roman scientifique. The subjects addressed in these works predominantly related to modernity and progress. As a ‘fourth condition for the emergence of science fiction’ (Luckhurst 2005: 25), these texts explored the horizons of development within capitalist societies, particularly the growing presence and impact of scientific and technological advancements and the resulting societal changes. The technoscientific progress and the expansion of (white) humanity across the globe vastly broadened the realm of the possible (see Rieder 2008), inviting explorations and dreams of novelties yet undiscovered and futures not yet realized.
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Collective Anxieties, Reader Manipulation and the 1910 Passage of Halley's Comet in Ramón María Tenreiro's La agonía de Madrid
The aim of this article is to analyze some aspects of the novelette La agonía de Madrid o la cola del cometa, published in 1910 by the Galician writer Ramón María Tenreiro. My main purpose is to show how the political meaning and ultimate reading effect of the text stems from the coalescence of various strategies: on the textual side, a double genre adscription which blends the sentimental novel or folletín with science fiction, the manipulation of the implicit audience, and a metaliterary epilogue; on the paratextual side, a careful staging of the circumstances of publication, mainly the perverse use of the cover illustration and the deliberate choice of the date of release, marked by nothing less than the fear of the end of the world.
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Clemente Palma, Carlos Toro y el paso del cometa Halley en 1910
El propósito del presente artículo es poner en diálogo dos historias de ciencia ficción escritas en Latinoamérica a comienzos de la segunda década del siglo XX: \"El día trágico\" del escritor peruano Clemente Palma y \"El dieciocho de mayo\" del mexicano Carlos Toro. Ambas narraciones constituyen ficciones urbanas que imaginan un futuro apocalíptico tomando como punto de partida el evento real del paso del cometa Halley cerca de la Tierra en mayo de 1910. Después de contextualizar históricamente los relatos, señalo cómo ambos contribuyen a una tradición literaria transnacional de desastres cósmicos y hacen uso de topoi discursivos propios de esta, como las narrativas de extinción y de \"el último hombre\". Además, tanto \"El día trágico\" como \"El dieciocho de mayo\" incorporan una perspectiva palingenética en la que, junto a la crítica presentista, se vislumbran algunas características de una posible sociedad futura.1 Lo que aquí sostengo es que la fusión de elementos propios de la ficción apocalíptica con una codificación del cometa como métafora del cambio social resulta en obras híbridas que pueden ser leídas como comentarios alegóricos del proceso moderno de secularización. En su desarrollo, ambas historias muestran las ansie-dades individuales que sus autores experimentan ante el avance de la moderni-dad y, en su falta de conclusión, las dificultades y en último extremo imposibilidad por parte de Palma y Toro de imaginar el futuro.
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El resurgimiento católico de entreguerras (1918-1936) a través del prisma español
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar las repercusiones principales que tuvo en España el resurgimiento católico que se produjo en la literatura europea en el periodo de entreguerras. Para ello, en primer lugar, se propone entender esta vuelta a lo religioso como un contramovimiento espiritual frente a la amenaza del nihilismo; seguidamente, se mostrará a partir del análisis de varios textos significativos cómo estas razones se vinculan a la profunda crisis espiritual de entreguerras y a la particular situación española. Posteriormente, se observará la conexión entre el retorno religioso, el auge de la literatura comprometida en los años 30 y la consolidación del fascismo y el comunismo. Y, finalmente, se atenderá a la repercusión cultural que tuvo este retorno y cómo afectó a la producción literaria peninsular.
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CAMPO LITERARIO Y CANON DE LA NOVELA MODERNA ESPAÑOLA: UNA ENCUESTA DE 1925
Alrededor de la mitad de la década de los años 20 del siglo pasado confluyen en España el debate sobre el agotamiento de la novela y sus posibilidades futuras con la discusión sobre los grupos de escritores jóvenes y su posición como vanguardia literaria. Tomando como marcos interpretativos la sociología de Bourdieu y las teorías sobre canonización, el presente artículo describe, por una parte, algunos de los mecanismos a través de los cuales los jóvenes escritores plantearon la cuestión de su ubicación dentro del sistema literario y qué imagen proyectaban de la labor de las generaciones anteriores; por otra parte, abordo cómo se negociaba en un diálogo intergeneracional el pasado, el presente y el futuro de la novela española en torno a dos temas centrales: la cuestión del realismo y la dialéctica entre escritura minoritaria y literatura masiva. Para ello, se toma como caso de estudio un objeto literario peculiar: una encuesta en torno a las mejores novelas españolas contemporáneas llevada a cabo por el periódico Heraldo de Madrid entre los años 1925 y 1926. Around the mid-twenties of the past century, the debate about the exhaustion of the novel and its future possibilities converges with the discussion surrounding groups of young writers and their position as literary avant-garde. Using the interpretative frameworks of the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and theories of canonization, this article describes some of the mechanisms by which young writers raise the issue of their location within the literary system and what image they projected of the work of previous generations; in addition, I explore the intergenerational dialogue on the past, the present, and the prospects of the Spanish novel around two central themes: the question of realism and the dialectic between minority writing and mass literature. In order to achieve this goal, this article takes as its object of study a survey about the best contemporary Spanish novels carried out by the newspaper Heraldo de Madrid between 1925 and 1926.
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