Structures of Feeling makes available two decades of work by the pioneering scholar of Spanish cultural studies, Jo Labanyi, covering literature, cinema, painting, photography, and memory studies, with a frequent focus on gender. The essays explore the ways in which cultural texts serve as a vehicle for negotiating cultural anxieties, through their encoding of emotional structures that reveal social tensions and contradictions. The discussion of a wide range of Spanish texts, from the early nineteenth-century to the present, traces stages in the history of the emotions and their imbrication in political processes. The essays have in common an attempt to read against the grain; in many cases, the focus on gender is what makes that possible.
Jo Labanyi is a Fellow of the British Academy, and the founding editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies. She is now Professor of Spanish at New York University.
‘There is much in this book to celebrate—multiple topics, angles, issues and theories addressed in order to focus us on ‘ways of thinking about Spanish culture’, where ‘culture’ means literature, cinema, painting and photography, with (perhaps) history, historical memory, feminism, gender, race, nation formation, modernity and politics added to the mix.... Some of these essays are already classic studies that have influenced the way we think about certain literary periods or texts. Labanyi combines theory with specificity, details from the works studied inserted (or viewed through) various theoretical constructs. She claims to search for ‘moments of contradiction or incoherence’ in literature that often point to ‘something important’ (6), a claim fully realized in this book.’ — David T. Gies, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 98.3, 2021, 485-87
‘The essays in Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present are suggestive in their individual approaches; the book as a whole is nevertheless unique as a window into the thought of one of the most influential scholars of Spanish culture in recent decades. Whether or not one always agrees with Labanyi, it is impossible not to be in awe of her mind and method, and how she has carried the profession forward.’ — Wadda C. Rios-Font, Studies in XXth and XXIst Century Literature46.1, 2022
‘Las páginas que abren el volumen son un brillante ejercicio de egohistoria donde Labanyi reflexiona tam- bién sobre la labor de re-archivo que acomete para este proyecto... Como Labanyi asevera desde las primeras páginas de Spanish Culture from Ro- manticism to the Present, lo que realmente cuenta son los momentos no esperados, de tensión, que el crítico logra desentrañar en el artefacto cultural objeto de estudio, “the contradictions and incoherence that, perhaps even more than areas of consensus, put us in touch with the pulse of the time” (4). Quizá sea este crucial precepto metodológico, aplicado de manera consistente a esta variedad de estudios realizados desde mediados de los noventa, adoptando diversos ángulos críticos y considerando distintos medios, lo que trasluce con mayor fuerza en Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present. Structures of Feeling: la tentativa generosa de motivarnos a releer a contracorriente para deshacer, o cuando menos problematizar, asunciones culturales que también atrav’ — Patricia López-Gay, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 25, 2021, 310-12
‘A key contribution to Spanish Cultural and Literary Studies. Running through the collection is the author’s attention to ‘structures of feeling’, drawing on Raymond Williams’s notion, as a driver and explanatory resource for the comprehension of a diverse array of cultural production primarily from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.’ — Richard Cleminson, Modern Language Review 118.2, 2023, 269-71 (full text online)
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Chapter 12 the Politics of the Everyday and the Eternity of Ruins: Two Women Photographers in Republican Spain (margaret Michaelis 1933–37, Kati Horna 1937–38) Jo Labanyi doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzmb.17
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Chapter 13 Resemanticizing Feminine Surrender: Cross-Gender Identifications in the Writings of Spanish Female Fascist Activists Jo Labanyi doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzmb.18
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Chapter 14 Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares Jo Labanyi doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzmb.19
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Chapter 16 Three Nationalist Film Versions of the Civil War: España Heroica (reig, 1937), Sin Novedad En El Alcázar (genina, 1940), ¡el Santuario No Se Rinde! (ruiz-Castillo, 1949) Jo Labanyi doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzmb.21
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Chapter 22 History and Hauntology; Or, What Does One Do With the Ghosts of the Past? Reflections On Spanish Film and Fiction of the Post-Franco Period Jo Labanyi doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzmb.27
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Chapter 24 the Languages of Silence: Historical Memory, Generational Transmission and Witnessing in Contemporary Spain Jo Labanyi doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkzmb.29
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Bibliography entry:
Labanyi, Jo, Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present: Structures of Feeling, Selected Essays, 11 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019)
First footnote reference:35Spanish Culture from Romanticism to the Present: Structures of Feeling, jo Labanyi, Selected Essays, 11 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2019), p. 21.
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