The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella
A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon
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Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 12] 2016. v, 238 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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The Motif of Hero and LeanderAntonio Cortijo Ocaña | pp. 1–17
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La istòria de Leànder y Hero de Joan Roís de Corella: Transmissió textual, anàlisi ecdòtica i edició críticaJosep-Lluis Martos | pp. 19–48
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The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella: A Multilingual Edition of a Classic from the Crown of Aragon
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La istòria de Leànder y HeroJosep-Lluis Martos | pp. 51–94
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The Story of Leander and HeroAntonio Cortijo Ocaña | pp. 95–109
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La Hestoria de Lleandro y HeroPablo Suárez | pp. 111–127
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L'Histoire de Léandre et HéroJean-Marie Barberà | pp. 129–144
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Die Geschichte von Leander und HeroInga Baumann | pp. 145–161
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Η ιστορία του Λέανδρου και της ΗρώςIlias Oikonomopoulos | pp. 163–178
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La storia di Ero e LeandroAnnamaria Annicchiarico | pp. 179–192
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História de Hero e LeandroRicardo Silveira Da Costa | pp. 193–207
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Жоан Роис де КоррельаClaudio Klotchkov | pp. 209–223
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La historia de Leandro y HeroVicent Martines | pp. 225–238
“Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Josep Lluís Martos provide us with a great edition and study of one of the classics of Catalan letters: the Story of Leander and Hero by Joan Roís de Corella. The book sets the work within the context of 15th-c. sentimental prose and traces the successful development of this motif in Renaissance letters. It also includes a new critical edition of the Catalan text of the Istòria de Leànder y Hero and superb translations into contemporary English, Asturiano, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, and Russian.”
Ángel Gómez Moreno, Universidad Complutense, Madrid
“This book will help us understand the relevance of the story of Leander and Hero in Catalan and Iberian letters at the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. A detailed and magnificent new edition of the Catalan text is followed by an impressive array of translations into several European languages. In addition, two excellent prefatory studies by Antonio Cortijo and Josep Lluís Martos allow the reader to fully comprehend the importance of Joan Roís de Corella and his work.”
Óscar Perea Rodríguez, Lancaster University
Subjects
Linguistics
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSBB: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
Main BISAC Subject
LCO008000: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General