Brief forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic literature
By: Edited by Barry Taylor and Alejandro Coroleu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781443891394
Subjects: Spanish literature; History and criticism; Congresses
Description: The studies gathered in this volume engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874-1946), whose Einfache Formen ("Simple Forms") was first published in 1930. Trained as an anthropologist, Jolles argued that these "simple" forms - Legende (legend), Sage (saga), Mythe (myth), Rätsel (riddle), Spruch (proverb), Kasus (case), Memorabile (memorable action), Märchen (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. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The reception of Ramon Llull's collections of proverbs from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century: an overview / Francesc Tous Prieto; title: Ferrer Saiol's fourteenth-century Catalan translation of Palladius' Sententiae / Raimon Sebastian; title: On the Eastern origin and Iberian analogues og Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canon's Yeoman's Tale / Francesc J. Gómez; title: Antonio Beccadelli il Panormita's DE dictis et factis regis Alphonsi Aragonum: text and book / Barry Taylor; title: On the circulation of the Latin miscellany in renaissance Spain / Alejandro Coroleu; title: The enigmatic mountain: Canigou's black lake and its demonic beings / Eulàlia Miralles; title: The Epigram and definition of the sonnet in sixteenth-century Spain, from Herrera to Garcilaso: notes on an historigraphical problem / Roland Béhar; title: A mirror for Mexican princes: reconsidering the context and latin source for the Nahuatl translation of Aesop's fables / Andrew Laird; title: On the presence of Alciato's emblems in tthe work of Baltasar de Vitoria, disciple of Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas / Cirilo García Román and Alejandro Martínez Sobrino; title: Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish collections of brief forms and the ars excerpendi / Iveta Nakládalová.