José Carlos Mainer

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José Carlos Mainer
(José-Carlos Mainer) Casa de Velázquez. Falange y literatura, cuarenta años después.jpg
Born11 July 1944 Edit this on Wikidata (age 77)
Zaragoza Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationLiterary critic, literary historian, professor Edit this on Wikidata
Employer
Awards
  • Aragonese Literature Award (2002) Edit this on Wikidata

José Carlos Mainer Baqué (born 1944) is a Spanish historian of literature and literary critic,[1] Professor Emeritus of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR).[2] He is credited for his interdisciplinary scholar work intermingling studies on cultural and literary history.[3]

Biography[]

Born in 1944 in Zaragoza,[1] he earned a PhD in Philosophy and Arts from the University of Barcelona (UB).[4] Author of the pioneer Falange and literatura in 1971, his work regarding the study of literary fascism has been described as "exculpatory" towards the Falangist authors involved.[5] He worked as lecturer at the UB, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)[4] before obtaining a Chair in Literary History of the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) in 1982.[6] He retired from teaching in 2011 and remains active as writer, critic and lecturer and collaborates with the newspapers El Pais and ABC.

Awards and recognitions[]

In December 2002 he was granted by the Diputación General de Aragón the second edition of the 'Premio de las Letras Aragonesas'.[7] In 2004 he was awarded with the journalism prize for the cultural, ethic and democratic values from the Basque Country by the newspaper El Correo.[8] In 2011, in the year of his retirement as a professor at the University of Zaragoza, the book Para Mainer de sus amigos y compañeros de viaje[9] has been edited.

Works[]

Author
  • — (1971). Falange y literatura. Barcelona: Labor.[n. 1]
  • — (1972). Literatura y pequeña burguesía en España.[4]
  • — (1975). La Edad de Plata.[4]
  • — (1989). Historia, literatura, sociedad.[4]
  • — (1989). La corona hecha trizas, 1930-1960. Barcelona: PPV.[11]
  • — (1994). De posguerra, 1951-1990. Barcelona: Crítica.[12]
  • — (2000). La escritura desatada. El mundo de las novelas.[13]
  • — (2003). La filología en el purgatorio. Los estudios literarios en torno a 1950. Barcelona: Crítica.[14]
  • — (2004). La doma de la quimera. Ensayos sobre nacionalismo y cultura en España. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert.[15]
  • — (2005). Tramas, libros, nombres: para entender la literatura española, 1944-2000. Barcelona: Anagrama.[16][17]
  • — (2006). Años de vísperas. La vida de la cultura española, 1931-1939. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.[18]
  • — (2012). Pío Baroja. Madrid: Taurus.[19]
  • — (2014). Historia mínima de la literatura española. Madrid & México: Turner-El Colegio de México.[20][21]
Director
  • Mainer, José-Carlos, ed. (2010–2013). Historia de la literatura española. Barcelona: Crítica. (9 volumes)[20]

References[]

Informational notes
  1. ^ Reedited in 2013 by RBA.[10]
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