Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Rangel, Vicente H.

Abstract

The main force that directed the course of Valle-Inclan's literary work was his spiritualism. This spiritualism, the essence of Valle-Inclan's Carlism, led to a desire on his part to transcend the senses and chronological time, and found expression in his art, guiding the evolution of his aesthetics from the Sonatas to the Esperpento, permeating his traditionalism as well as his radicalism, and manifesting itself in the mystical-aesthetic perspective expounded in La lampara maravillosa. Valle-Inclan parallels the process of spiritual life substituting the divine intervention that characterizes the mystical phenomenon with artificial means, namely, the use of marihuana. The perspective that he obtains through this process offers a grotesque, radical vision of Spanish reality; to better reflect this bitter reality, Valle-Inclan created the technique of the Esperpento. This approach seeks to clarify the confusion among critics dealing with this writer's contradictory political postures.

Extent

80 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13847

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