Title Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature

Published Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents The reception of Ramon Llull's collections of proverbs from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century: an overview / Francesc Tous Prieto -- Ferrer Saiol's fourteenth-century Catalan translation of Palladius' Sententiae / Raimon Sebastian -- On the Eastern origin and Iberian analogues og Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canon's Yeoman's Tale / Francesc J. Gómez -- Antonio Beccadelli il Panormita's DE dictis et factis regis Alphonsi Aragonum: text and book / Barry Taylor -- On the circulation of the Latin miscellany in renaissance Spain / Alejandro Coroleu -- The enigmatic mountain: Canigou's black lake and its demonic beings / Eulàlia Miralles -- The Epigram and definition of the sonnet in sixteenth-century Spain, from Herrera to Garcilaso: notes on an historigraphical problem / Roland Béhar -- A mirror for Mexican princes: reconsidering the context and latin source for the Nahuatl translation of Aesop's fables / Andrew Laird -- 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 -- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish collections of brief forms and the ars excerpendi / Iveta Nakládalová Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism -- Congresses Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism -- Congresses Literature & literary studies. Literary studies: classical, early & medieval. Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Spanish literature Spanish literature -- Classical period Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1527500594 9781527500594

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