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La época en la que escribió Rosalía de Castro, mediados del siglo XIX, se caracterizó sobre todo por una ruptura de las relaciones entre mujeres y hombres. La autora dio esta llamada de atención en gran parte de […]

En la comunicación que proponemos, haremos un acercamiento al universo del dolor y sus diversas representaciones en la obra poética y prosística de dos escritoras. La primera de ellas, la gallega Rosalía de Castro […]

With renewed interest in the theory of emotion, critics have begun to take a second look at Rosalía de Castro’s fiction, long regarded as taking second place to her poetry.  Using recent emotion theory, this talk looks at the way characters in Castro’s novel Flavio navigate their emotions.  Focusing on the instability of emotions and the ambivalence of emotional response, Rosalía de Castro’s novel dramatizes the roles of imagination, reason, passion, and judgment and thus explores the complexities of human emotional life.  At the center of the novel is the main characters’ conflict between high-priority goals that result in acute emotional distress.  In this the novelist validates Reddy’s theory of emotion as a set of competing goals and codes that are constantly navigated in attentive thought.  My paper will discuss the degree to which the novel successfully explores the dialectical problem of emotion versus reason and the clash between self-interest and life-goals which in the nineteenth century came to have such thematic dominance in the novel.

Friday, 9 January 2015.

10:15–11:30 a.m., East 17, VCC East

A special session: Las hijas del mar and Rosalía de Castro: Emotions from Coast to City in the Nineteenth Century

Presiding by Professor Dr. Ana […]

1)LOU CHARNON-DEUTSCH (panelist) is Full Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University and the author of many books, among them Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction […]