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- Title
Una casa en disputa: Rosalía de Castro, entre la ruina y la restitución.
- Authors
MARÍA DO CEBREIRO RÁBADE VILLAR
- Abstract
The literary motif of the abandoned house is one of the most powerful imaginings in modern literature. In its decline as a casa encantada (haunted house, in English-language fiction), the image has given rise to a broad spectrum of reflections on the cultural significance of spectral spaces. Due to the strong anthropological connection between the house and identity, a symptomatic reading of the image can reveal some tensions in the articulation of peripheral cultural formations. This article analyzes the image of the house in several literary and periodical texts by Galician authors from 19th century Spain (Manuel Murguía, Ventura Pueyo, Emilia Pardo Bazán y Rosalía de Castro), based on the establishment of a metaphorical tie between the house and language and/or dialect. In order to clarify the meaning of this link in European fiction, a comparison is established between the literary corpus of Rosalía de Castro, particularly the novels "Flavio" and "La hija del mar," and the novel "Wuthering Heights," by Emily Brontë. The analysis shows not only that the literary production of the cultural periphery repeatedly came into conflict with the centralizing tendency of the Spanish historiographical canon, but also that the cultural tension between the normative and the eccentric left profound marks on the European literary discourse of the 19th century.
- Subjects
ABANDONED houses in literature; HAUNTED houses in literature; DE Castro, Rosalia; FLAVIO (Book); LA hija del mar (Book); WUTHERING Heights (Book : Bronte); BRONTE, Emily, 1818-1848
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2013, Vol 47, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0034-818X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/rvs.2013.0020