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"The book addresses the apparent paradox that is at the base of the processes of cultural production and consumption in mid-nineteenth-century Europe: the fact that nations at different narrative stages become contiguous literary markets. It focuses on translations and imitations of foreign literary models and on their role in setting up the bases of the bourgeois Spanish novel.
While critics have viewed translations and imitations as alien to Spanish processes of cultural formation, the book argues that these writing practices constitute both a discourse on national identity and an autochthonous writing. The book contends that the acceptance of translation and imitation in the literary life of a country does not imply denying the specific conditions created by political borders in the constitution of a national literature, that is, the existence of national borders framing literary life. What it does is recognize new and different frontiers that destabilize the national confines (as well as the nationalistic values) of literary history.
In translation and imitation, borders are experienced not as the demarcation of otherness, but rather as crossroads in the quest for identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Translations into English, Roman espagnol, French influences, Influence française, Roman, Nationalisme et littérature, Traductions anglaises, Spanish fiction, 18.32 Spanish literature, Nationalism and literature, French fiction, Roman français, Mystères de Paris (Sue, Eugène), History and criticism, Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature, Histoire et critique, Romans, Frans, Social problems in literature, Receptie, Spaans, 18.25 French literature, Spanish fiction, history and criticism, French fiction, translations into englishEdition | Availability |
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Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation, and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Spain
August 2002, Bucknell University Press
Hardcover
in English
0838755208 9780838755204
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