Immature Playboys and Predatory Tricksters: Studies in the Sources, Scope and Reach of Don Juan

Immature Playboys and Predatory Tricksters: Studies in the Sources, Scope and Reach of Don Juan

  • Auteur: García de la Rasilla, Carmen; Abril Sánchez, Jorge
  • Éditeur: Juan de la Cuesta – Hispanic Monographs
  • ISBN: 9781588713452
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781588713636
  • Lieu de publication:  Newark , United States
  • Année de publication: 2002
  • Pages: 200
  • Langue: Anglais

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

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