Iconography in Medieval Spanish Literature

The masterpieces of medieval Spanish literature have come to be known and loved by Hispanists, and more recently by others throughout the world. But the brilliant illuminations with which the original manuscripts were illustrated have remained almost totally unknown on the shelves of the great European libraries. To redress this woeful neglect, two noted scholars here present a generous selection from this great visual treasury including many examples never before reproduced. John E. Keller and Richard P. Kinkade have chosen five representative works, dating from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth, to illustrate the richness of early Spanish narrative art. Together, these five works encompass the entire range of narrative techniques and iconography to be found in medieval Spain, and reflect both foreign and native Spanish artistic tendencies. The authors’ analyses of the relation between verbalizations and visualizations will provide students of medieval art and literature a wealth of new information expanding our knowledge of this fascinating period. The beauty of many of the illuminations speaks for itself. John E. Keller is professor of Spanish at the University of Kentucky. Richard P. Kinkade is professor of Spanish and dean of humanities at the University of Arizona.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_spanish_literature/1022/thumbnail.jp

British Periodicals and Spanish Literature

With the main goal of contributing to a wider understanding of the presence of Spanish literature and culture in British Romanticism, this book focuses on the instrumental role played by the British periodical press in the Anglo-Spanish literary and cultural exchange in the first half of the nineteenth century. All the chapters bear witness to the contrasting and varied perception of everything Spanish, the different strategies of exploration, appropriation and rewriting of its cultural and literary tradition. Besides, they all reveal the intricate web of cultural, political and religious factors tinging the discourse of British Romantic literary critics and authors on the Spanish cultural capital

The Numantian Theme in Spanish Literature

Numantia, after years of heroic resistance, fell to the Roman legions in 133 B.C. The conquest of Numantia was so costly that it played an important role in the internal politics of Rome and thus it was singled out and received the attention of the Greek and Roman historians who recorded and analyzed the conquest and colonization of Iberia. Centuries later, when Spain had developed a sense of national unity, the Hispanic chroniclers found in the history of Numantia an authenticated record of Iberian will to resist foreign domination and evidence of a courageous and virtuous national character. The Hispanic writers were pleased to find that the Roman historians had attributed the humiliating ineffectiveness of the Roman legions to a lack of morale and morality, while finding but one fatal flaw in the more primitive Celtiberians: a lack of political unity beyond limited regional loyalties. Certain elements of the siege of Numantia are inherently dramatic and tragic, and thus lend themselves well to literary expansion. Moreover, certain philosophical aspects became associated with Numantia because of the patterns of classical thought contained in the works that mentioned the siege of the Iberian settlement. The stature and significance of Numantia grew with the passage of time so that by the end of the sixteenth century, when Cervantes made the first major literary use of it, it had become a legend which symbolically represented a wide range of philosophical and national considerations. This study first traces the tramsmission of the history of Numantia and its transformation into a literary theme. It then examines the moral, political and esthetic implications of the Numantian plays and poetry which have appeared in almost every Spanish literary movement from the sixteenth century down to the present time

Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early modern Spanish literature and thought.; Readership: Renaissance and Early Modern scholars and students interested in the rise of imaginative literature and its embeddedness in pre-modern Spanish society. It will also appeal to Religious Studies scholars

Saint Christopher in medieval Spanish literature

The thesis explores the legend of Saint Christopher as presented in four fourteenth- and fifteenth-сеntury manuscripts, the oldest extant Castillan accounts. Chapter One outlines the legend's origins in fourth-century Eastern Mediterranean culture, and its trajectory as far as its appearance in Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea, commenting on the changes made to content and emphasis as the account evolved. The focus narrows in Chapter Two, where the transmission from Latin to Castillan is considered in detail, and comparisons drawn between the four vernacular accounts. Chapter Three and Four deal with thematic aspects of the legend as they appear in Spanish, including an exploration of die nature of Christopher in his dual portrayal as saint and monster, and the notions of fear, power and voice as they are depicted in the texts. The four medieval Spanish accounts are edited and presented here (three of them for the first time) in an appendix, complete with critical apparatus

William Dean Howells' relation to Spanish literature

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Romance Language and Literature, 1925

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. It explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women’s disability

Dido: Virgil’s character and transmission in Spanish literature

En este estudio realizamos un estado de la cuestión de las diferentes interpretaciones de la Dido virgiliana para luego relacionarlas con cómo el mito se fue reescribiendo en las distintas épocas de la literatura española, dando lugar a un personaje que terminó por quitarle protagonismo a Eneas y se convirtió en una figura clave de la literatura universal.At this work, we try to overview Virgil’s character Dido state of affairs regarding to different interpretations. Nextly, this will be connected with the different rewritings of the myth throughout Spanish Literature’s movements. To conclude with, we will see how the character won importance over Eneas and became one of the greatest in Universal Literature

Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early modern Spanish literature and thought.; Readership: Renaissance and Early Modern scholars and students interested in the rise of imaginative literature and its embeddedness in pre-modern Spanish society. It will also appeal to Religious Studies scholars