Jonathan David Bradbury

The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

A Literature of Fragments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 book underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as disseminators of knowledge to a popular readership, and explores the evolutions the tradition undergoes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781472429841
• ISBN-10: 1472429842
• Artikelnr.: 47330035

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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