Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2017
220 pages
978-1-5275-0059-4 (ISBN)
Description
The studies gathered in this volume engage in different ways with the ideas of Andre Jolles (1874-1946), whose Einfache Formen ("e,Simple Forms"e,) was first published in 1930. Trained as an anthropologist, Jolles argued that these "e,simple"e, forms - Legende (legend), Sage (saga), Mythe (myth), Raetsel (riddle), Spruch (proverb), Kasus (case), Memorabile (memorable action), Maerchen (folk or fairy tale) and Witz (joke or witticism) - which had circulated at a very early stage of human culture underlay the more sophisticated genres of literature. Unlike epic or tragedy, many of the simple forms are not theorised in classical rhetoric. The essays presented here focus on their reception in Hispanic culture from the Middle Ages to circa 1650. As such, the book will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature. It will also appeal to historians of Humanism as well as scholars working on classical and Renaissance literary theory.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Reception of Ramon Llull's Collections of Proverbs from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century
- Ferrer Saiol's Fourteenth-Century Catalan Translation of Palladius' Sententiae
- On the Eastern Origin and Iberian Analogues of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
- Antonio Beccadelli il Panormita's De dictis et factis regis Alphonsi Aragonum
- On the Circulation of the Latin Miscellany in Renaissance Spain
- The Enigmatic Mountain
- The Epigram and Definitions of the Sonnet in Sixteenth-Century Spain, from Herrera to Garcilaso
- A Mirror for Mexican Princes
- On the Presence of Alciato's Emblems in the Work of Baltasar de Vitoria, Disciple of Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas
- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Collections of Brief Forms and the ars excerpendi
- Index
