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Title Comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. Volume II / edited by César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín Gonzalez, Ellen Sapega.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Series Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages ; XXIX
Comparative history of literatures in European languages ; XXIX.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF LITERATURES IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA VOLUME II; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Presidential Preface to Vol. 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula; Introduction; Contents of Volume 2 ; Note on documentation and translation ; Acknowledgements ; Section I. Images; Inter( -in)ventions: Images of national identity in the literatures of€the€Iberian Peninsula; Galician literature and the imaginary: Functions and problems; "Catalonia is not Spain": Images of self and other in Catalan literature.
On the origins of images of gypsiesClichés ; Juan de Quiñones' Discurso contra los gitanos ; Conclusion ; The others in Golden Age drama; Images of the "condemned" Europeans in the satiric works of€Francisco€de€Quevedo; Vulnerability and the literary imagination in the Basque context; New models of foreignness ; The odyssey of Spanish Jews: Un-homely Sefarad; Around 1492: un-homely Sefarad ; Jews in selected works of modern Spanish literature and history of thought ; Returning to 1492 ; Self-images and hetero-images in Portuguese youth literature; Reasons for Portuguese national pride.
Impact on the literary field: youth literature Portugal's self-image: time and history ; Portugal's self-image: setting ; Hetero-images ; Spain ; Europe ; Africa ; Concluding remarks ; Regional images and the struggle for life in Madrilenian literature; The regional stereotypes of the Iberian Peninsula ; Madrilenian literature, a unique vantage point for the study of regional images ; Madrid's peculiar history and the presence of regional characters ; The struggle for life, a constant theme in Madrilenian literature ; Madrid, the hostel or pension of Spain.
The struggle for life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Madrilenian novels Regional origins and social determinism in the modern city ; Newcomers and host nations: Literary images associated with immigrants in Spanish narrative; Section II. Genres; Introduction: Laws and (inter- )texts; Sefer ha-meshalim and the status of poetry in medieval Iberia; Pastoral. The pastoral romance; The conventions of the pastoral ; The shepherd ; The narrative plot ; Troubles without end ; Fiction and realism ; Autobiography and literary coherence ; Space ; Poetry and art.
The criticism of the pastoral novel The honest book ; The disintegration of the pastoral universe ; Conclusion ; Books of chivalry: Outline of a genre; Preliminary topics ; Roots and flowering of the genre ; Praise and condemnation ; Theorization ; Pieces in a game ; The art of narration ; A model of a hero ; War ; Epilogue ; The sonnet in the Iberian Peninsula in the sixteenth century; The picaresque in Iberia and America (nineteenth to twentieth century); The genre: history and criticism ; The picaresque model in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Subject Iberian Peninsula -- Literatures -- History and criticism.
Europe -- Iberian Peninsula.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Domínguez, César.
Abuín González, Anxo.
Sapega, Ellen W.
Other Form: Print version: 9027234655 9789027234650 (OCoLC)945105377
ISBN 9027266913 (electronic book)
9789027266910 (electronic book)
9027234655
9789027234650