A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula

Volume I

Editors

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Anxo Abuín González | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

César Domínguez | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

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A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested.

Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda.

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.

This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer_chlip.pdf

[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, XXIV] 2010. xiv, 750 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxiv

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface | pp. ix–xii

Section I. Discourses on Iberian literary history

The European horizon of Peninsular literary historiographical discourses

Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza | pp. 1–52

Historiography and the geo-literary imaginary: The Iberian Peninsula: Between Lebensraum and espace vécu

César Domínguez | pp. 53–132

Section II. The Iberian Peninsula as a literary space

Introduction: The Iberian Peninsula as a literary space

Sharon Feldman | pp. 133–137

Identitarian projections: Between isolationism and reintegrationism

The hidden history of tripartite Iberianism

Thomas Harrington | pp. 138–162

On Lusism and Lusofonia: From identitarian reinforcement to the mapping of difference

Laura Cavalcante Padilha | pp. 163–182

Travel writing

Luis Fernández Cifuentes | pp. 183–210

Cities, cultural centers and enclaves

Empires waxing and waning: Castile, Spain and American exceptionalism

Michael Ugarte | pp. 211–221

Bilbao and the literary system in the Basque Country

Jon Kortazar | pp. 222–236

Contemporary Catalan literature: Fact or friction?

Dominic Keown and Jordi Larios | pp. 237–252

Literary and cultural production centers in Galicia (1840–1936)

Anxo Tarrío Varela | pp. 253–267

Cities, cultural centers, and peripheries

From Iberia to Africa: The construction of a literary city

Inocência Mata | pp. 268–277

Southern Spain

Lee Fontanella | pp. 278–289

The Canaries: Between mythical space and global drift

Bertrand Westphal | pp. 290–308

Insulated voices looking for the world: Narratives from Atlantic Islands (Cabral do Nascimento, João Varela, and João de Melo)

Ana Salgueiro Rodrigues | pp. 309–323

Section III. The multilingual literary space of the Iberian Peninsula

Introduction: Multilingualism and literature in the Iberian Peninsula

Ángel López García | pp. 325–332

Bilingualism and Diglossia in Medieval Iberia (350–1350)

Roger Wright | pp. 333–350

The impact of Arabic diglossia among the Muslims, Jews and Christians of al-Andalus

María Ángeles Gallego | pp. 351–365

The Jewish Literature in Medieval Iberia

Mariano Gómez-Aranda | pp. 366–385

The Latin language, a European linguistic continuum: The Hispanic-Portuguese contribution.

José María Estellés González and F. Jorge Pérez y Durà | pp. 386–395

Galician-Portuguese as a literary language in the Middle Ages

Graça Videira Lopes | pp. 396–412

Castilian and Portuguese in the sixteenth century

Ángel Marcos de Dios | pp. 413–428

Literary language and diatopic variation: Catalan literary cultures

Vicent Salvador | pp. 429–444

Basque as a literary language

Karmele Rotaetxe | pp. 445–455

Ideology and image of Peninsular languages in Spanish literature

Fernando Romo Feito | pp. 456–473

Section IV. Dimensions of orality

Introduction to Dimensions of orality

Paloma Díaz-Mas | pp. 475–477

Comparativism and orality: Critical approaches to the ballads of La boda estorbada (The thwarted marriage)

Paloma Díaz-Mas | pp. 478–501

Epic and ballad in the Hispanic tradition

Samuel G. Armistead | pp. 502–509

The traditional Iberian lyric of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age: A comparative view

Margit Frenk | pp. 510–535

Linguistic borders and oral transmission

José Luis Forneiro | pp. 536–552

Iberian traditions of international folktale

José Manuel Pedrosa | pp. 553–561

Literature and new forms of orality: Invisible realities

Luis Díaz G. Viana | pp. 562–573

Section V. Temporal frames and literary (inter-)systems

Introduction: Temporal frames and literary (inter-)systems

Fernando Gómez Redondo | pp. 575–581

Building a literary model: Prose in the court of Alfonso X (1252–84)

Fernando Gómez Redondo | pp. 582–594

Literature at the crossroads of politics: Spain and Portugal, 1580

Tobias Brandenberger | pp. 595–600

The court of the Catholic Monarchs (1474–1504), or the break in the equilibrium among Peninsular languages

Víctor de Lama de la Cruz | pp. 601–613

Theatrical repertoire models in Portugal: Conflict and circulation (1737–93)

Raquel Bello Vázquez | pp. 614–629

The Spanish literary system in the nineteenth century

Leonardo Romero Tobar | pp. 630–640

The dialogue of Iberian literary nationalisms

José-Carlos Mainer | pp. 641–652

The shifting systems for literary creation in the novel during the transition and democracy (1975–82)

Randolph D. Pope | pp. 653–664

Index | pp. 727–750

“Im Vergleich zu den herkömmlichen nationalsprachlich orientierten Literaturgeschichten ergibt sich ein messbarer Erkenntniszugewinn. Allein aus diesem Grunde ist der vorliegende Band der CHLIP nur zu begrüß en und man kann gespannt seiner Vervollständigung im zweiten Band entgegensehen.”

Roger Friedlein, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, in Zeitschrift fur Katalanistik Revista dÉstudis Catalans, Vol. 25 (2012)

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