For Love and Money
Narrative Economies in Misericordia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10610183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beth Wietelmann Bauer |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235 |
| Publication date | 1992-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2904738 |
| OpenAlex | W2314508037 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Readers of Misericordia will find a rudimentary version of Galdos's protagonist Benina in Gonzalo de Berceo's thirteenth-century story of the pobre caritativo. There, in one of the simplest of the twentyfive Milagros de Nuestra Sefora, comprised of a mere forty lines of cuaderna via, we find the narrative bare bones of Gald6s's novel: presence (Era un omne) and absence (Non avie), love (amava) and money (pepiones), and the case of a beggar who overcomes his own deprivation in order to care for others. El pobre caritativo is also about compensation, for the mendicant believer is rewarded posthumously when the angels transport him directly to heaven where he feasts upon celestial bread. The palliative function of narrative is only implicit in Berceo's Milagros; the cleric's listeners are never told that these miraculous tales will ease their spiritual and physical hungers by filling them up with hope. Misericordia, on the other hand, explicitly defines fiction in terms of its power to satisfy basic human needs, to nourish. Through its
Art · Economics · Economy · Literature · Narrative · Early Modern Spanish Literature · Medieval Iberian Studies · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |