Approaches to Teaching the Works of Carmen Martin Gaite

Informationen zum Autor Joan L. Brown is Elias Ahuja Professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Secrets from the Back Room: The Fiction of Carmen Martín Gaite (1987) and Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2010). She is the editor of Women Writers of Contemporary Spain: Exiles in the Homeland (1991). With Carmen Martín Gaite, she wrote the textbook Conversaciones creadoras: Mastering Spanish Conversation (1994). Klappentext The career of Spain's celebrated author Carmen Martín Gaite spanned the Spanish Civil War, Franco's dictatorship, and the nation's transition to democracy. She wrote fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays for television and film, and books of literary and cultural analysis. Part 1 of this volume provides resources for instructors and a literary-historical chronology. The essays in part 2 consider Martín Gaite's best known novel, The Back Room, and other works, from various perspectives: narratological, feminist, sociocultural, stylistic.

Product details

• Authors: Joan L. (EDT) Brown
• Assisted by: Joan L Brown (Editor), Joan L. Brown (Editor), James Ray Green (Translation), Beatriz Llenín Figueroa (Translation)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9781603291316
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-131-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories