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The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age - A Literature of Fragments (Paperback)
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The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age - A Literature of Fragments (Paperback)
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Taking up the invitation extended by tentative 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 and
Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this
commercially successful and intellectually significant genre,
Bradbury underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as
disseminators of knowledge and information to a popular readership.
His comprehensive analysis of the miscelanea corrects long-standing
misconceptions, starting from its poorly-understood terminology,
and erects divisions between it and other related genres. His work
illuminates the relationship between the Golden Age Spanish
miscellany and those of the classical world and humanist milieu,
and illustrates how the vernacular tradition moved away from these
forebears. Bradbury examines in particular the later inclusion of
explicitly fictional components, such as poetic compositions and
short prose fiction, alongside the vulgarisation of erudite or
inaccessible prose material, which was the primary function of the
earlier Spanish miscellanies. He tackles the flexibility of the
miscelanea as a genre by assessing the conceptual, thematic and
formal aspects of such works, and exploring the interaction of
these features. As a result, a genre model emerges, through which
Golden Age works with fragmentary and non-continuous contents can
better be interpreted and classified.
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