Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 42 | 111 | 2019
Research Article | Missing Information in the Fictional Worlds of Benito Pérez Galdós
Missing Information in the Fictional Worlds of Benito Pérez Galdós
A Modern and Vital Experiment
- Donatella Siviero - Università degli Studi di Messina, Italia - email
Abstract
This paper will examine the use of missing information in some novels by Benito Pérez Galdós: the trilogy El doctor Centeno, Tormento, La de Bringas. Galdós’ plots are built on allusions and withheld information, and revealed by different narrative voices; they require an active participation on the part of the reader, who must put together different blocks of information as though they were tesseras in a mosaic. This missing information leads to subjective textual lacunas, that is, they are deliberately interlocutory and relational, in order to lead the reader to a continual collaboration and to make him/her create logical connections between the text’s different perspectives. The use of this reticence strategy creates an almost metafictional relationship between Galdós’ works and the reader, a bond that is surprisingly modern with respect to the latter’s horizons of expectation.
Submitted: Jan. 31, 2019 | Accepted: April 1, 2019 | Published June 21, 2019 | Language: es
Keywords Galdós’ novels • Reticence • Rhetorical techniques • Textual lacunas • Aposiopesis • Técnicas retóricas • Reticencia • Paralipsis • Novelas • | Benito Pérez Galdós • Lagunas textuales
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dc.title |
Missing Information in the Fictional Worlds of Benito Pérez Galdós. A Modern and Vital Experiment |
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dc.contributor.author |
Siviero Donatella |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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Research Article |
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es |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2019/111/el-vacio-informativo-en-los-mundos-ficcionales-de/ |
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dc.description.abstract |
This paper will examine the use of missing information in some novels by Benito Pérez Galdós: the trilogy El doctor Centeno, Tormento, La de Bringas. Galdós’ plots are built on allusions and withheld information, and revealed by different narrative voices; they require an active participation on the part of the reader, who must put together different blocks of information as though they were tesseras in a mosaic. This missing information leads to subjective textual lacunas, that is, they are deliberately interlocutory and relational, in order to lead the reader to a continual collaboration and to make him/her create logical connections between the text’s different perspectives. The use of this reticence strategy creates an almost metafictional relationship between Galdós’ works and the reader, a bond that is surprisingly modern with respect to the latter’s horizons of expectation. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Rassegna iberistica |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 42 | Issue 111 | June 2019 |
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dc.issued |
2019-06-21 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2019-04-01 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2019-01-31 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2037-6588 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2019/12/002 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Aposiopesis |
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dc.subject |
Aposiopesis |
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dc.subject |
Galdós’ novels |
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dc.subject |
Galdós’ novels |
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dc.subject |
Lagunas textuales |
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dc.subject |
Lagunas textuales |
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dc.subject |
Novelas |
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dc.subject |
Novelas |
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dc.subject |
Paralipsis |
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dc.subject |
Paralipsis |
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dc.subject |
Reticence |
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dc.subject |
Reticence |
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dc.subject |
Reticencia |
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dc.subject |
Reticencia |
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dc.subject |
Rhetorical techniques |
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dc.subject |
Rhetorical techniques |
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dc.subject |
Textual lacunas |
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dc.subject |
Textual lacunas |
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dc.subject |
Técnicas retóricas |
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dc.subject |
Técnicas retóricas |
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dc.subject |
| Benito Pérez Galdós |
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dc.subject |
| Benito Pérez Galdós |
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