Galdos and the irony of language

DIANE F. UREY
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

CAMBRIDGE LONDON NEW YORK MELBOURNE NEW ROCHELLE SYDNEY

For Mark

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www. Cambridge. org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521237567 Cambridge University Press 1982 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1982 This digitally printed first paperback version 2005 A catalogue recordfor this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 8112210 ISBN-13 978-0-521-23756-7 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-23756-4 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-67332-7 paperback ISBN-10 0-521-67332-1 paperback

Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The irony of portrait Isidora Rufete Rosalia de Bringas

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2 The setting of irony La de Bringas Torquemada y San Pedro Nazarin Misericordia 3 The narrator of irony The historical chronicle, the novel within the novel, and Don Quijote: Nazarin and Halma 'Phantom chapters': Angel Guerra First-person narrators: El amigo Manso and Lo prohibido The epistolary novel: La incognita The dialogue novel: Re alidad The texture of irony

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Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index