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Article: The Great Chiasmus: Word and Flesh in the Novels of Unamuno.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2005
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The Great Chiasmus: Word and Flesh in the Novels of Unamuno. By PAUL R. OLSON. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press 2003. vii+264 pp. $54.95 (pbk $24.95). ISBN 1-55753-341-5 (pbk 1-55753-261-3).
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, and increasingly since the 1980s, a change has come over approaches to the writers of the Generation of 1898. Instead of considering them as thinkers (especially about the regeneration of Spain) in opposition to the modernistas, critics have increasingly tended to look at them primarily as creative writers This has had two results On the one hand, Maeztu has virtually disappeared from view and we hear much less than we ...