Quixotic modernists: reading gender in Tristana, Trigo and Martínez Sierra

308 Pages·2007·15.937 MB·English

by  Martínez Sierra, María;Martínez Sierra, Gregorio;Ciallella, Louise;Pérez Galdós, Benito;Trigo, Felipe

Quixotic Modernists
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Quixotic Modernists
Reading Gender
in Tristana, Trigo,
and Mart´ınez Sierra
Louise Ciallella
Lewisburg
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1.Spanishfiction—20thcentury—Historyandcriticism. 2.Spanish
fiction—19thcentury—Historyandcriticism. 3.Sexroleinliterature.
4.Modernism(Literature)—Spain. 5.Pe´rezGaldo´s,Benito,1843–1920.
Tristana. 6.Trigo,Felipe,1864–1916.Ingenuas. 7.Mart´ınezSierra,
Gregorio,1881–1947.Tu´ ereslapaz. 8.Mart´ınezSierra,Mar´ıa,
1874–1974—Criticismandinterpretation. I.Title.
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ForIdaandallthegirls.
ToP.andB.,myfaithfulbookends.
ToDr.B.,foreverything.
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Contents
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 13
TheWomanQuestionandNewVisualizations 15
QuixoticAntecedentsandZonesofProverbialTactics 24
Words,Coins,andtheCarnivalBody 30
TheBodiesBehindtheShadows 36
ModernistsHomesandLandscapes 41
1. Galdos’sTristana—FluctuatingRealismand
FragmentedBodies 46
BetweenDonQuijoteandDonJuan 49
WantingtoSeeandtoSpeak 63
SubjectiveLandscapes 73
HensandDoves 89
Puntossuspensivos—ASpaceforChange 94
2. TheSpirit oftheMatter:Felipe Trigo 99
ExceptionalandSelf-ConsciousHeroes:TheEngineer,
thePhysician,andtheDandy 109
ThePassionateHeroandtheNatureofWomen 129
TheArtisticNatureofLove 143
TheSpiritoftheMatter 168
Conclusion 170
3. TheHeart oftheMatter:Mar´ıaMart´ınezSierra 173
QuestioningAuthorship 176
LatristezadelQuijote 181
TheMujer-nin˜a’sGardenandtheNatureofFlower
Arrangements 190
OfHeart,Hearth,Home,andPeacefulLove 198
LifeasaWorkofArt 216
Conclusion 228
Conclusion 233
Notes 239
WorksCited 288
Index 299
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Acknowledgments
T
OSTARTFROMWHEREITBEGAN,IWOULDLIKETOTHANKTHEFAC-
ultyandfellowgraduatestudentsduringmystayattheUniver-
sity of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Spanish and Portu-
guese, especially my dissertation director Alda Blanco, and also
Benito Brancaforte, for their encouragement from the first
pages. A grant for research in Madrid from the then Center for
Latin American & Iberian Studies at the University of Wiscon-
sin-Madisongave memuch-neededfinancial support.
I also send heartfelt thanks to my colleagues in Northern Illi-
nois University’s Department of Foreign Languages and Litera-
tures, most profusely to Mary Cozad for her friendship and
intellectual support, including her careful, insightful reading of
mymanuscript.NIUWomen’sStudiesandUniversityResources
forWomenhaveencouragedmemorethantheyknow.Myanon-
ymous reader at Bucknell University Press gave me the plea-
sure of spending extensive and most attentive time with her
exemplarycommentary,andIthank heragain.
Special thanks go to Lou Charnon-Deutsch, above all for her
intellectual and personal example and for her joyous, generous
and encouraging spirit; she also graciously provided photo-
graphs of an illustration from the State University of New York
atStonyBrooklibraries.Withrespecttofurtherillustrationma-
terial,mygratefulacknowledgmentalsooftheworkof:RonBar-
shinger of the ILL Office and Wally Grant and Paul Allanson of
the Microforms and Media Center at Northern Illinois Univer-
sity Libraries; Steven Dast, and Pat Tuchscherer of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, and Sandra Paske
all at Memorial Library, Madison; Donald Burge of the Center
for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico; Jana
Krentz, Tyra Grant, and Michelle Curttright of the University
ofKansasLibraries;andJulieGrob,SpecialCollections,Univer-
sityofHoustonLibraries.
Thanks also to Anne Birberick and Northern Illinois Univer-
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10 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
sityforfundsforthereproductionofillustrations,andtotheAr-
chivoMar´ıaLeja´rragaforpermissiontociteextensivelyfromTu´
ereslapaz.PartsoftheIntroductionfirstappearedin anarticle
on Teresa Panza’s discourse and character zone, in Cervantes,
Fall 2003; some information on Felipe Trigo’s work recently ap-
pearedin myarticleonhis secondnovel, in Decimono´nica,Win-
ter2006.
Without my friends and family, this project might possibly
have begun but it most assuredly would not have endured: love
to my sisters Liz and Rose and their kids, to my adopted sister
Paula,toOllieandBobWillis,andtoJohnandKaren,KarenB.,
Joan and Sandy; to Lisa, Gabi, and Danielle; to Ellen, Marta,
Ian, and Jeff for their friendship and support; and to my ‘‘Illi-
nois’’friendsLizandJudyforgroundingmewiththeirlaughter,
encouragement, and wisdom. Last (and first), to Bruno, for my
neverhavingtoknowwhatitwouldhavebeenliketofinishthis
bookwithouthim,andinBandie’sspirit offlight.
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