TY - BOOK ID - 79904917 TI - The novel histories of Galdós PY - 1989 SN - 0691067775 9781400860005 1400860008 9780691067773 0691601607 9780691601601 0691631255 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - Spanish literature KW - Pérez Galdós, Benito KW - Historical fiction, Spanish -- History and criticism. KW - Pérez Galdós, Benito, -- 1843-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation. KW - Spain -- History -- 19th century. KW - Spain -- In literature. KW - Historical fiction, Spanish KW - History and criticism. KW - Perez Galdos, Benito, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Spain KW - History KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79904917 AB - Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) occupies a position in Spanish literature surpassed only by Cervantes, and, like him, made a major contribution to the European novel that is now becoming widely recognized. In a semiological approach to the second period of Episodios Nacionales, Diane Urey demonstrates the relevance of these twenty-six novels, the least studied of Galdos's works, to fundamental issues such as the relationship between history and fiction, and between mimesis and creation. Her findings of ambiguity, irony, and allegory in this writer's highly self-conscious historical novels will revise our views of Galdos's place in European letters while offering new insights into a general theory of historical fiction.Diane Urey offers an alternative to referential or ideological interpretations of the Episodios by stressing the indeterminate textuality of historical incidents and the fictionality of historical discourse. Drawing on Derrida, De Man, Foucault, and Hayden White, she applies a wide range of narrative theory to these texts and concludes that novel and history are interchangeable modes of discourse because they rely necessarily on the same narrative strategies.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. ER -