A STUDY OF THE CULTURAL MECHANISMS IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN THAT LED TO
THE TRANSLATION, IMITATION AND SELECTIVE ADOPTION OF THE VALUES
EMBODIED BY THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
This innovative study examines the cultural mechanisms in early modern
Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of
the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance. These mechanisms
served to delineate a national tradition that addressed the needs of a
changing society and gave a "Spanish" physiognomy to the Italian
experience, which ultimately led to the Golden Age.
By examining such important texts as the sentimental fictions of Diego
de San Pedro and Juan de Flores, the Spanish translation of _Orlando
Furioso_, _Don Quixote_, and the _Polifemo_, Binotti first describes
the conditions imposed on book production by both the expectationsof
an elite audience and the limitations of the printing market while
outlining the process of the creation of an expressive poetic language
and the quest for literary models. She then looks at Ambrosio de
Morales' chronicles andBernardo de Aldrete's _Del Origen_, showing how
a cultural discourse founded on foreign scholarship paved the way for
the establishment of innovative-and autochtonous-methods of historical
and scientific analysis in the early seventeenth-century.
LUCIA BINOTTI is an associate professor in the Department of Romance
Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
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9781782040927
Publisert
2020
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Tamesis Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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