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La masculinidad alternativa como forma de antideterminismo: una relectura del cura Julián en Los Pazos de Ulloa

Jeannette Acevedo Rivera — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Although she is known as the main representative of Naturalism in Spain, Emilia
Pardo Bazán rejected the determinism and materialism that formed the basis of this movement
in France, as developed by Émile Zola. In Los Pazos de Ulloa (1886), this rejection is presented
through the character of the priest Julián Álvarez. Raised by a sanctimonious mother and made
an object of ridicule in the seminary for his fastidious cleanliness, Julián constitutes an exception
to traditional ideas about masculinity. This article proposes a reinterpretation of Julián’s character
based on his particular manifestation of gender in the naturalist setting of the novel. Religious and
secular men alike judge Julián for his delicate appearance and behavior, forcing him to engage
in stereotypically masculine activities such as drinking and hunting. However, he resents these
impositions, demonstrating a level of sensitivity condemned by society. This article explores Julián’s
resistance to hegemonic masculinity as a way for Pardo Bazán to rebel against the materialism
required in Naturalism. Using gender and masculinity studies as a theoretical framework, the article
explains how Julián challenges traditional perceptions of gender, exemplifying an alternative and positive masculinity. Thus, what was supposedly a deficiency becomes a possibility for salvation that
allows the priest to materialize another way of being a man. This approach to Los Pazos contributes
to the study of the intersection between gender and religion in nineteenth-century Spanish literature

De estampitas y películas: postales, cine y transformación social en un análisis cultural de Pardo Bazán

Alicia Cerezo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In an 1898 article of La vida contemporánea for La Ilustración Artística, Emilia
Pardo Bazán advocates for the use of postal cards because they cost less, but are just as trustworthy
as letters. Yet only three years later, the author would offer a resounding criticism of this means of
interpersonal communication. Likewise, although later she would praise cinema on account of its
unexpected narrative capacity, in 1908 she pronounces a negative judgement on this innovative
mass medium. With a theoretical and methodological framework that we would define today as
cultural studies, Pardo Bazán presents her reservations regarding both media in similar terms. Her
epistemological approach questions the value of the immediate, visual, and instinctive qualities
they offer, valuing instead that which is procedural, textual, and pondered. This approach ultimately
reveals her opinion about the dichotomy between the irrational and the rational in literature and
the arts. Not only does Pardo Bazán point out the harmful influence of some aspects of foreign
modernity, but she also warns the readers about the unwanted individual and social transformations
that arise when the medium is identified with the message, or, in the author’s words about
postcards, “la estampita” with “el asunto.” For Pardo Bazán, postcards and cinema will only be
dignified media when they acquire a “pedagogical” and “patriotic” narrative, albeit to the detriment
of their visual nature.

Presentación

La Tribuna — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

De La Tribuna a Cigarreiras

Cándido Pazó — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cigarreiras

Cándido Pazó — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cigarreras

Cándido Pazó — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Un camiño de teatro e pedras entre La Tribuna e Cigarreiras

Inma López Silva — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cigarreras, una excelente adaptación teatral de La Tribuna, de Emilia Pardo bazán, en el Teatro Fernán Gómez

José Luis González Subías — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

La Tribuna, de Emilia Pardo Bazán, en el escenario

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As OBRAS DE PARDO BAZÁN TRADUCIDAS AO GALEGO: SORTE DESIGUAL, INTERESES DIVERSOS

Alejandro Tobar — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MI TRADUCCIÓN DE UN VIAJE DE NOVIOS DE EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN AL TURCO

Nesrim Karavar — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Una carta y una postal inéditas de doña Emilia a Palacio Valdés

Francisco Trinidad — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Carta de la niña Emilia a su padre Don José Pardo Bazán (1861)

Luis Miguel Fernández — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000