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II. Literary Genre: The
Novel
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How is political conflict directly represented in novels?
Gertrudis
Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga. SAB.
(1841,
Cuba)
Supporting References:
- Bibliography: http://evergreen.loyola.edu/tward/www/courses/biblio/avellaneda.bib.html
- "Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis." The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance. : Oxford University Press, 2010. Oxford Reference. 2010. Date Accessed 16 Aug. 2013
The article offers
an overview of Gómez de Avellaneda and less a discussion on the
above-cited text.
“Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis
(‘Tula’) (1814–73) Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist. Born
in Cuba, she emigrated to Spain and became that nation's best-known
woman dramatist of the nineteenth century and a staunch defender of
women writers as well. After the Madrid première of Munio
Alfonso in 1844, she wrote fifteen other full-length plays that
usually reflect romantic
motifs and focus on religious sentiment or conflict. Two of her
greatest successes were the biblical drama Saul (1849),
staged in lavish settings at the Teatro Español, and the
pseudo-historical Baltasar (1858). A different side of her
talent was revealed in the equally popular The Daughter of the
Flowers (1852), a three-act verse comedy
that dealt more with middle-class social values than romantic
passions.”
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