Background
Valis, Noël Maureen was born on December 24, 1945 in Lakewood, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Lee Ritter, Katherine Rafferty.
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The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas: A Study of LA Regenta and Su âUnico Hijo
(Louisiana State Univ Press, 1981, Very good., Hardcover. ...)
Louisiana State Univ Press, 1981, Very good., Hardcover. 213 pages. Very good in dust jacket. 0807107697. [Literary Criticism, Spanish Literature, Clarin, Leopoldo Alas] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.
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Leopoldo Alas (Clarín): An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement I (Research Bibliographies and Checklists: new series)
(Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered negle...)
Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regime, but his reputation has now achieved classic status in Spain. Clearly related to this is the great increase in the number of translations - Julian Barnes called La Regenta 'the foreign classic tardily discovered'. This bibliography picks up where the first one left off in 1984. It is divided into primary material and secondary material. Primary material includes: Anthologies and Selections; Criticism; Novels; Short Story Collections; Plays; Correspondence; Prologues; Reprints; Translations; and Miscellaneous, with two new categories: autograph manuscripts and iconography.
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The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain
( Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and curs...)
Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In The Culture of Cursilería, Noël Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture. Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs to argue that cursilería has its roots in a sense of cultural inadequacy felt by the lower middle classes in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Spain. The Spain of this era, popularly viewed as the European power most resistant to economic and social modernization, is characterized by Valis as suffering from nostalgia for a bygone, romanticized society that structured itself on strict class delineations. With the development of an economic middle class during the latter half of the nineteenth century, these designations began to break down, and individuals across all levels of the middle class exaggerated their own social status in an attempt to protect their cultural capital. While the resulting manifestations of cursilería were often provincial, indeed backward, the concept was—and still is—closely associated with a sense of home. Ultimately, Valis shows how cursilería embodied the disparity between old ways and new, and how in its awkward manners, airs of pretension, and graceless anxieties it represents Spain's uneasy surrender to the forces of modernity. The Culture of Cursilería will interest students and scholars of Latin America, cultural studies, Spanish literature, and modernity.
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Prelude to Pleasure: A Bilingual Edition of Vispera del Gozo
(This is the first English translation of Vispera del gozo...)
This is the first English translation of Vispera del gozo -- a collection of short stories by Pedro Salinas (1891-1951), a writer best known for his poetry and involvement in the Spanish vanguard aesthetic movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
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Other Work
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Author: The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas, 1981, The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón, 1986, Leopoldo Alas (Clarín): An Annotated Bibliography, 1986, 2d volunteer, 2002, Mi casa me recuerda/My House Remembers Me, 2002, The Culture of Cursileria: Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class in Modern Spain, 2002 (Katherine Singer Kovacs prize, 2003). Co-editor (with Carol Maier): In The Feminine Mode. Essays on Hispanic Women Writers, 1990.
Editor: Malevolent Insemination and Other Essays on Clarín, 1990. Translator: Las conjuradoras. Antología bilingüe de seis poetas estadounidenses, 1993, Prelude to Pleasure, 1993, The Poetry of Julia Uceda, 1995.
Contributor articles to professional journals.
Noël Maureen Valis
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Noël Maureen Valis, American language educator, literature educator. Fellow Honorary Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1968, Graduate fellow, National Defense Education Act, 1968-1971, Summer fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1981, Research fellow, Treaty of Friendship between United States and Spain, 1986. Member of Modern Language Association, Association Internacional de Galdosistas, National Association Scholars, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor summa cum laude, Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1968. Master of Arts, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1975.
Career
Lecturer Spanish Rosemont College, Pennsylvania, 1971—1972, 1976—1977. Assistant professor Spanish University Georgia, Athens, 1977—1981, associate professor Spanish, 1981—1985, professor Spanish, 1985—1986, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1986—1991, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1991—1999, Yale University, New Haven, since 1999. Visiting professor New York University, 1995, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, 1993, University Pennsylvania, 1989.
Research library and assistant Privacy Protection Study Commission, Washington, 1975—1976. Research specialist Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, 1973.
Works
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Prelude to Pleasure: A Bilingual Edition of Vispera del Gozo
(This is the first English translation of Vispera del gozo...)
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Leopoldo Alas (Clarín): An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement I (Research Bibliographies and Checklists: new series)
(Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered negle...)
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The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain
( Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and curs...)
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The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas: A Study of LA Regenta and Su âUnico Hijo
(Louisiana State Univ Press, 1981, Very good., Hardcover. ...)
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Prelude to Pleasure: A Bilingual Edition of Vispera del Gozo
Other Work
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Author: The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas, 1981, The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón, 1986, Leopoldo Alas (Clarín): An Annotated Bibliography, 1986, 2d volunteer, 2002, Mi casa me recuerda/My House Remembers Me, 2002, The Culture of Cursileria: Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class in Modern Spain, 2002 (Katherine Singer Kovacs prize, 2003). Co-editor (with Carol Maier): In The Feminine Mode. Essays on Hispanic Women Writers, 1990.
Editor: Malevolent Insemination and Other Essays on Clarín, 1990. Translator: Las conjuradoras. Antología bilingüe de seis poetas estadounidenses, 1993, Prelude to Pleasure, 1993, The Poetry of Julia Uceda, 1995.
Contributor articles to professional journals.
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Membership
Member of Modern Language Association, Association Internacional de Galdosistas, National Association Scholars, Phi Beta Kappa.
Interests
Connections
1 child Maura Katherine.
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Nationality
American
Education
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1968
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1970
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1975
Career
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1971 - 1972
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1976 - 1977
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1977 - 1981
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1986 - 1991
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1991 - 1999
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1999
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Fellow Honorary Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1968, Graduate fellow, National Defense Education Act, 1968-1971, Summer fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1981, Research fellow, Treaty of Friendship between United States and Spain, 1986.Fellow Honorary Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1968, Graduate fellow, National Defense Education Act, 1968-1971, Summer fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1981, Research fellow, Treaty of Friendship between United States and Spain, 1986.