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The miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age : a literature of fragments
Title
The miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age : a literature of fragments / by Jonathan David Bradbury.
ISBN
1315555530
1317023927
9781315555539
9781317023920
1317023900
1317023919
1472429842
9781472429841
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as disseminators of knowledge and information to a popular readership. His comprehensive analysis of the miscelánea corrects long-standing misconceptions, starting from its poorly-understood terminology, and erects divisions between it and other related genres. His work illuminates the relationship between the Golden Age Spanish miscellany and those of the classical world and humanist milieu, and illustrates how the vernacular tradition moved away from these forebears. Bradbury examines in particular the later inclusion of explicitly fictional components, such as poetic compositions and short prose fiction, alongside the vulgarisation of erudite or inaccessible prose material, which was the primary function of the earlier Spanish miscellanies. He tackles the flexibility of the miscelánea as a genre by assessing the conceptual, thematic and formal aspects of such works, and exploring the interaction of these features. As a result, a genre model emerges, through which Golden Age works with fragmentary and non-continuous contents can better be interpreted and classified.
Variant and related titles
Literature of fragments
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Bradbury, Jonathan David. Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age. New York : Routledge, 2017
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Approaching Spanish miscellaneity. Introduction; The terminology of Spanish miscellaneity; The antecedents of Spanish miscellaneity; The values of a genre approach to Spanish miscellaneity
2. Variety, curiosity and compilation. Variety; Men's curious tastes; Vulgarisation through compilation
3. Knowledge, authority and themes. Breadth and depth of knowledge; Knowledge and authority; Themes of Spanish miscellaneity
4. Macroforms of Spanish miscellaneity. The conversation of Spanish miscellaneity; The plain-prose macroform; The epistolary macroform; The dialogue macroform; The frame-story macroform
5. Microforms of Spanish miscellaneity. The varied reading of the Spanish miscellanies; Poetry in the Spanish miscellanies; Short prose fiction in the Spanish miscellanies
6. Conclusions and future directions. Conclusions; Future avenues of investigation
Bibliography
Provisional corpus of Golden Age Spanish miscellanies (by year).
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