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El tríptico tolstoyano de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán

Khmeleva, Elena A.

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, Spanish.
Emilia Pardo Bazán’s perception of Leo Tolstoy culminates in her short story trilogy: El conde llora, El conde sueña, and El espíritu del conde. For Pardo Bazán, who popularized Russian literature in late nineteenth-century Spain, Tolstoy was initially a model realist but then was viciously critiqued in these three works. The present thesis shows that Pardo Bazán inherited the myth of Tolstoy created in Melchior de Vogüé’s Le roman russe and adopted by the Russian anarchists in France and Spain for political propaganda. Investigation of Doña Emilia’s Tolstoyan trilogy and critical works reveals that her final bitter appraisal of the author of War and Peace, filtered through a naturalist framework, was the fruit of disillusionment with his social and religious thought. This disappointment stemmed from the Marxist critics who influenced Pardo Bazán and hastened to destroy the image of Tolstoy, as the Russian writer was a key ideological weapon for their anarchist rivals.
José Domínguez-Búrdalo, PhD (Advisor)
Beatriz Celaya-Carrillo, PhD (Committee Member)
Paula Gandara, PhD (Committee Member)
91 p.

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  • Khmeleva, E. A. (2009). El tríptico tolstoyano de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1242252787

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Khmeleva, Elena. El tríptico tolstoyano de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1242252787.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Khmeleva, Elena. "El tríptico tolstoyano de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1242252787

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)