Emilia Pardo Bazán and the Phenomenon of French Decadentism

PMLA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 418-427
Author(s):  
John W. Kronik
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazan ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazán ◽  
Critical Writings

The fourth volume in the series of studies that Emilia Pardo Bazán had entitled La literatura francesa moderna was to bear the caption of La decadencia. In the three previous volumes the Countess had followed the evolution of the French literary process of the nineteenth century from romanticism to naturalism, and in the last she planned to gather old notes and new ideas into an analysis of end-of-the-century trends. She never brought this project to fruition, but she did leave dispersed among her many other critical writings her ideas and interpretations touching on this phenomenon that she labeled variously “la decadencia” or “el decadentismo.”

scholarly journals Emilia Pardo Bazán, an Ethical Writer

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Dolores Thion Soriano-Mollá
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Moral Legitimacy ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazan ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazán

Within the cultural context of nineteenth-century Spain, Emilia Pardo Bazán uses literature to raise public awareness on the death penalty. Considering the seriousness of the issue, she thought that emotions – not reason – could allow people to have a better understanding and to form their own opinion. Thus, in La piedra angular, through the fictional word of Marineda, she examines the controversies linked to the legal, human, and moral legitimacy of capital punishment and to the figures of both the criminal and the executioner, but also to the nature of truth and public opinion.

Struggling with the ‘Rosalian myth’

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-435
Author(s):  
Carmen Pereira-Muro
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazan ◽  
Rosalia De Castro ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazán

The theme of emigration is present in the work of two of the most prominent nineteenth-century Galician authors, Emilia Pardo Bazán and Rosalía de Castro. They had very different approaches: the topic of displacement in several naturalist stories by Pardo Bazán is far removed from the discourse of affect that characterizes de Castro’s work. But in the novel Morriña [‘Homesickness’] (1889), Pardo Bazán displays an uneasy mixture of both discourses (sentimentalism and naturalist determinism) which is, I will argue, a result of the unresolved tension between her Spanish nationalism and her feminist agenda. This tension will lead her to both accept and challenge the ‘Rosalian myth’ created by Galician migrants and embodied in Esclavitud, the migrant protagonist of Morriña.

scholarly journals La metáfora del viaje en Un viaje de novios de Emilia Pardo Bazán

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Antoine Bouba Kidakou
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazan ◽  
Travel Writings ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazán ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
The Way

Within the vast corpus of the nineteenth century Spanish narrative, Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Un viaje de novio, deserve a different consideration due to a particular style adopted by the author and the consideration of travel as an allegory of life. The author departs, hence fore, from the way how travel was understood in the nineteenth century when writers based their travel writings or novels on the scientific and educational aspects. Pardo Bazan explores the transcendental aspect of travel fact and this paper studies the different techniques used by the writer to develop the metaphor of travel considering the geographical movement as an internal trip. The subjective and progressive transformation of the main protagonist, according to the itinerary of the trip, is studied as that internal journey.

Editorial Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Editors of the JIOWS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Shed Light

The editors are proud to present the first issue of the fourth volume of the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies. This issue contains three articles, by James Francis Warren (Murdoch University), Kelsey McFaul (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Marek Pawelczak (University of Warsaw), respectively. Warren’s and McFaul’s articles take different approaches to the growing body of work that discusses pirates in the Indian Ocean World, past and present. Warren’s article is historical, exploring the life and times of Julano Taupan in the nineteenth-century Philippines. He invites us to question the meaning of the word ‘pirate’ and the several ways in which Taupan’s life has been interpreted by different European colonists and by anti-colonial movements from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. McFaul’s article, meanwhile, takes a literary approach to discuss the much more recent phenomenon of Somali Piracy, which reached its apex in the last decade. Its contribution is to analyse the works of authors based in the region, challenging paradigms that have mostly been developed from analysis of works written in the West. Finally, Pawelczak’s article is a legal history of British jurisdiction in mid-late nineteenth-century Zanzibar. It examines one of the facets that underpinned European influence in the western Indian Ocean World before the establishment of colonial rule. In sum, this issue uses two key threads to shed light on the complex relationships between European and other Western powers and the Indian Ocean World.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

Hispania ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 501
Author(s):  
Donald F. Brown ◽  
Walter T. Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Emilia Pardo Bazan ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazán
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