A New History of Spanish Literature

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LSU Press, Sep 1, 1991 - Literary Criticism - 456 pages

First published in 1961, A New History of Spanish Literature has been a much-used resource for generations of students. The book has now been completely revised and updated to include extensive discussion of Spanish literature of the past thirty years.

Richard E. Chandler and Kessel Schwartz, both longtime students of the literature, write authoritatively about every Spanish literary work of consequence. From the earliest extant writings though the literature of the 1980s, they draw on the latest scholarship.

Unlike most literary histories, this one treats each genre fully in its own section, thus making it easy for the reader to follow the development of poetry, the drama, the novel, other prose fiction, and nonfiction prose. Students of the first edition have found this method particularly useful. However, this approach does not preclude study of the literature by period. A full index easily enables the reader to find all references to any individual author or book.

Another noteworthy feature of the book, and one omitted from many books of this kind, is the comprehensive attention the authors accord nonfiction prose, including, for example, essays, philosophy, literary criticism, politics, and historiography.

Encyclopedic in scope yet concise and eminently readable, the revised edition of A New History of Spanish Literature bids fair to be the standard reference well into the next century.

 

Contents

Part
1
Cultural Ages and Literary Schools
8
Part 2
25
The Degeneration of the Epic
31
Prose Fiction
105
Lyric Poetry
197
Nonfiction Prose
303
Costumbrismo
326
Half of the Nineteenth Century
340
Index
389

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About the author (1991)

Richard E. Chandler is professor of Spanish emeritus at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, in Lafayette.

Kessel Schwartz is professor of modern languages emeritus at the University of Miami.

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