A Contrapuntual Method For Analyzing Spanish Literature

A Contrapuntual Method For Analyzing Spanish Literature

  • Author: Ullman, Pierre L.
  • Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
  • Serie: Literary Criticism
  • ISBN: 0916379523
  • Place of publication:  Potomac , United States
  • Year of publication: 1998
  • Pages: 260
  • Language: English

This volume demonstrates how literary critics seeking to establish a structure for certain works of Spanish literature can classify their symbols according to the first two essays of Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism. The present study essays the method with two episodes from Don Quixote, Lope de Vega's El caballero de Olmedo, Gallego's Oda a la muerte de la Duquesa de Frías, Zorilla's Don Juan Tenorio, Galdós' Torquemada en la hoguera, Clarín's ¡Adiós, Cordera!, Valle-lnclán's Rosarito, and two vignettes from Juan Ramón Jiménez' Platero y yo. "The book under review will be of value to anyone studying the titles listed above. Ullman's interpretations are too powerful to be ignored by any scholar researching a work he studies here."-Stephen Miller, Hispanic Review.

  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I: The Parallel Contrapuntal Method of Literary Analysis
  • Chapter II: Noble Washbasins: Two Episodes in Cervantes's: Don Quixote
  • Chapter III: Flawed Valor: Lope de Vega's: El caballero de Olmedo
  • Chapter IV: Adoring an Aphrodisian Christ Figure: Gallego's "Oda a la muerte de la Duquesa de Frías"
  • Chapter V: A Rebel Nobleman under a Bourgeois God: Zorrilla's: Don Juan Tenorio
  • Chapter VI: The Ironic Villain as Protagonist: Galdós's: Torquemada en la hoguera
  • Chapter VII: The Cow as a Mock Christ Figure in Antifeminist Psychology: Clarín's "¡Adiós, Cordera!"
  • Chapter VIII: The Male Cinderella and Other Motifs: Palacio Valdés's: José
  • Chapter IX: Murderous Incest: Valle-Inclán's "Rosarito"
  • Chapter X: Pantheistic Epiphanies: Juan Ramón Jiménez's: Platero y yo
  • Works Cited
  • Onomastic Index
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