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Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De(1864–1936)
The Spanish philosopher of life Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo's concern was neither with the problems of linguistic clarification and conceptual analysis ...
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The Spanish philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936) was the earliest 20th-century thinker to arrive at a perspective on man and the world that can be described as existentialist.Th...
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Miguel de Unamuno was such an important public figure and intellectual mentor in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century that his fame as a polemical essayist and philosopher overshadowe...
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In the following essay, Balseiro comments on the works and life of Unamuno, arguing that Unamuno himself was a quixotic thinker.
In his essay on Hamlet and Don Quixote, Ivan Tourguéniev stated ...
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In the following essay, Round argues that Paz en la Guerra is both one of the last works of nineteenth-century Spanish realism as well as postrealism—using a metanarrative to unite documentary,...
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In the following essay, Baker explores the themes of faith and uncertainty in Unamuno's works, including Diario íntimio, Del sentimiento trágico de la vida, La agonía de Cr...
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In the following essay, Lowe explores how Unamuno uses the epistolary form as a narrative method in La novela de Don Sandalio.
“Fue por fin mi amigo al campo a curarse de sus murrias, tal y com...
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In the following essay, Summerhill reads Unamuno's Diario íntimio as religious allegory, arguing that for Unamuno the “road to reality is through imitation of books; and sincerity...
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In the following essay, Gertz suggests that in Nada menos que todo un hombre Unamuno subverts readers' understandings of archetypes through the fusion of the Self with the Other and the Other i...
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In the following essay, Resina contextualizes Unamuno's evolving political philosophy as a member of La Generacion del 98, paying close attention to the ways in which Unamuno's Basque he...
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In the following essay, Olson explores the Hegelian conceit of the ontological equivalence of Pure Being and Pure Nothingness in Unamuno's novels as represented by a set of nesting boxes each c...
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In the following essay, Del Rio provides an overview of contemporary American responses to Unamuno and demonstrates that Three Exemplary Novels “are highly representative of Unamuno's co...
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In the following essay, Earle provides readings of Unamuno's En torno al casticismo, Abel Sanchez, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, and Paz en la guerra, among others, to suggest that in Unamun...
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In the following essay, Varey discusses how Unamumo utilizes images of puppets and puppetry as a recurring thematic motif throughout his body of work.
“Aujourd'hui”—wrote E...
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In the following essay, Valdes argues that Unamuno's late works of literature, from Paz en la Guerra to San Manuel Bueno, mártir and La novella de don Sandalio, jugador de ajedrez, demon...
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In the following essay, Jimenez-Fajardo provides an extended close reading of Unamuno's Abel Sanchez to examine the manifestations of envy, arguing that in Abel Sanchez, it is Joaquin's ...
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In the following essay, Shaw uses three plays by Unamuno—La esfinge, Fedra, and El otro—to trace the development of Unamuno's “narrative concept of drama,” noting th...
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In the following essay, Speck argues that Como se hace una novella is a series of metanarratives constructed like a maze of mirrors in a carnival, suggesting that the novel tells the story of Unamuno&...
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In the following essay, Glannon provides a close reading of Unamuno's 1931 novel, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, to explore the ways in which the novel addresses the possibilities of meaning ...
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Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De (1864–1936)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo
Miguel de Unamuno (y Jugo)
Critical Essay by Jose A. Balseiro
