The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age: A Literature of Fragments

ISBN-13: 9780367880125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str.

Jonathan David Bradbury

Opis

Taking up the invitation extended by 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. The first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, this boo

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Contents

Chapter 1: Approaching Spanish Miscellaneity

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The Terminology of Spanish Miscellaneity

1.3 The Antecedents of Spanish Miscellaneity

1.4 The Values of a Genre Approach to Spanish Miscellaneity

Chapter 2: Variety, Curiosity and Compilation

2.1 Variety

2.2 Men’s Curious Tastes

2.3 Vulgarisation through Compilation

Chapter 3: Knowledge, Authority and Themes

3.1 Breadth and Depth of Knowledge

3.2 Knowledge and Authority

3.3 Themes of Spanish Miscellaneity

Chapter 4: Macroforms of Spanish Miscellaneity

4.1 The Conversation of Spanish Miscellaneity

4.2 The Plain-prose Macroform

4.3 The Epistolary Macroform

4.4 The Dialogue Macroform

4.5 The Frame-story Macroform

Chapter 5: Microforms of Spanish Miscellaneity

5.1 The ‘Varied Reading’ of the Spanish Miscellanies

5.2 Poetry in the Spanish Miscellanies

5.3 Short Prose Fiction in the Spanish Miscellanies

Chapter 6: Conclusions and Future Directions

6.1 Conclusions

6.2 Future Avenues of Investigation

Bibliography

Provisional Corpus of Golden Age Spanish Miscellanies (by year)

Primary Works Cited

Secondary Texts Cited

O autorze

Jonathan David Bradbury is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.