Myth And Meaning: A Paradigmatic Analysis Of Galdós's Fortunata y Jacinta

Myth And Meaning: A Paradigmatic Analysis Of Galdós's Fortunata y Jacinta

  • Autor: Moss Jackson, Edith
  • Editor: Scripta Humanistica
  • ISBN: 1882528387
  • Lloc de publicació:  Potomac , United States
  • Any de publicació: 2002
  • Pàgines: 200
  • Idioma: Anglés

This work is a symbolic study of Benito Pérez Galdós's masterful novel, Fortunata y Jacinta (1887). It is the first book to apply the totalizing body of Claude Lèvi-Strauss's anthropological structuralism to analyze the fictive model society encoded in this novel. Jackson discovers that the results of narrative techniques in Fortunata y Jacinta reflect the implied author's theoretical move from a mimetic mirroring of society to the presentation of an image of life that is consistent with Galdós's critiques of the excessive formalism of the external society of 19th-century Madrid.

  • Cover
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
    • 1. Structuralism
    • 2. Galdós' Theory of the Novel
    • 3. Structure and Codes
    • 4. Armature
    • 5. Summary and Conclusions
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • TABLES
  • FIGURES
  • MAPS