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Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) is regarded as one of Europe's greatest writers. This comprehensive study of literary criticism on Galdós emphasizes the central place he holds in Spanish literature, and charts the changing course in literary tastes and critical attitudes in Spain and the world of Hispanic studies.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- Pérez Galdós, Benito, --- Galdós, Benito Pérez, --- Péres Galdós, Benito, --- Pérez Galdós, B. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Bly's principal revelation is that Galdós deliberately and consistently used this secondary type to emphasize the significance of the major plot developments and to underline the strengths or weaknesses of principal characters. In filling these roles the eccentric old men develop from comic shallow types into more complex secondary characters, men of insight and wisdom, who occupy a pivotal position in the novels.

Pérez Galdós, Benito, --- Galdós, Benito Pérez, --- Péres Galdós, Benito, --- Pérez Galdós, B. --- Characters --- Men. --- Older people. --- Old age in literature. --- Older people in literature --- Perez Galdos, Benito,

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Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito P©♭rez Gald©đs. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito P©♭rez Gald©đs would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Gald©đs throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Gald©đs's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ram©đn y Cajal. Gald©đs and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century. T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University.

Evolution in literature. --- Pérez Galdós, Benito, --- Darwin, Charles, --- Philosophy. --- Influence. --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Galdós, Benito Pérez, --- Péres Galdós, Benito, --- Pérez Galdós, B. --- Perez Galdos, Benito,

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Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts - between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new Galdo

Pérez Galdós, Benito --- Dialogue. --- Littérature espagnole --- Critique et interprétation --- Perez Galdos, Benito, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation. --- Pérez Galdós, Benito, --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Dialog --- Drama --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Galdós, Benito Pérez, --- Péres Galdós, Benito, --- Pérez Galdós, B. --- Technique. --- Littérature espagnole --- Critique et interprétation.