Background
Villanueva, Dario was born on June 5, 1950 in Villalba, Galicia, Spain. Son of Francisco Villanueva and Maria Prieto.
(Realism has not only shaped important schools and periods...)
Realism has not only shaped important schools and periods in literary history, but has also been a fundamental constant of all literature, its first theoretical formulation being the principle of mimesis in Aristotle's Poetics. Realism can be considered by extension one of the main aspects of literary theory, the aims of which must be to define its concepts clearly and to neutralize the imprecision, polysemy, and ambiguity that often characterized the application of realism. This book explores the possibilities and limits of a concept of realism that seeks a point of equilibrium between the principle of the autonomy of the literary work vis-a-vis reality and the complex relations that the work clearly establishes with this reality. It acknowledges that it is a personal response to the poststructuralist crisis in literary theory. By concentrating on the study of the literary work of art as a verbal construction, the great Continental and Anglo-American tradition of formalism and New Criticism has ended up neglecting the second, mimetic aspect of the literary problematic, thus dissociating literature from life.
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Villanueva, Dario was born on June 5, 1950 in Villalba, Galicia, Spain. Son of Francisco Villanueva and Maria Prieto.
Master of Arts in Romance Philology, University Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1972. Doctor in Hispanic Philology, Autonomous University Madrid, 1976. Doctor honorary, University Birmingham, 1999.
Doctor honorary, University Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, 2000. Doctor honorary, University Colorado, 2001.
Assistant professor University Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1972-1975. Professor tutor University National de Education, Pontevedra, Spain, 1975-1977. Associate professor University Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1975-1986, professor theory of literature Spain, since 1987, university president Spain, 1994—2002.
Secretary Facultad de Filologia, 1978-1983, dean, 1987-1990. Director collection Ediciones Taurus, Madrid, since 1984. President Comision de Doctorado de la University, 1987-1990.
Visiting professor Middlebury College, Vermont, since 1987, University Colorado, 1988, 93.
(Realism has not only shaped important schools and periods...)
(El realismo constituye una constante de toda la literatur...)
Named Distinguished Visiting Foreign Scholar Mid-American State Universities Association, 1982. Member Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, Sociedad Española de Semiótica, Twentieth Century Spanish Association American, International Comparative Literature Association Clubs: Real Aero (Santiago de Compostela). Nautico (Noya-Portosin, Spain).
Married Ermitas Penas Varela, March 28, 1950. Children: Beatriz, José Francisco.