Gareth Thomas

The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1936 1975)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a major English study of the novels of the Spanish Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780521062039
• ISBN-10: 0521062039
• Artikelnr.: 23509768

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgement
Introduction
1. Literature, history and war
2. Literature, commitment and propaganda
3. Literary genre, narrative technique and language in the first-wave Civil War novel
4. Myth creation and reinforcement in the Nationalist novel
5. Commitment and propaganda in the Republican novel
6. The gods that failed: disillusionment in the novel of the Civil War
7. The novel as chronicle: Gironella's trilogy
8. The novel as symbol: La cabeza del cordero
9. Irrationalism and anti-historicism in the later novel of the Civil War (1967-1975)
Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary of Civil War terms
Bibliography
Index.