Rewriting the Italian Novella in Counter-Reformation Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9867428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David H Darst, Carmen R Rabell |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20063089 |
| OpenAlex | W1963986593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
As they reshaped the Italian novella under the inquisitorial atmosphere of the Counter-Reformation, Spanish narrators labelled their texts as exemplary. However, critics have usually agreed that there is a contradiction between the morals preached in the narrative frames, prologues and sententiae of Spanish novellas and the content of the plots. Rabell sees this ambiguity as a result of the use of the rhetoric of the fictitious case: Spanish novellas rewrite the Italian genre with the specific purpose of either challenging or validating the rules regarding marriage introduced by the Council of Trent.Since civil, canonical and family hierarchies were based on the same metaphor that conceives power as one body in which, by analogy, the husband is the head of his family, as the monarch is the head of the state and the Pope is the head of the church, Spanish novellas explore the contradictions between civil and canon laws regarding the private context of marriage in order to suggest further contradictions within the public sphere of state and church. The fictitious case provides a rhetoric to test the validity of the legal grounds of Counter-Reformation Spain. Carmen R. Rabell is associate professor, department of comparative literature, University of Puerto Rica - Rio Piedras.BR> En la atmosfera sofocante y inquisitorial de la Contrarreforma, los narradores espanoles - al reformular la novela italiana - tenian la costumbre de llamar sus textos 'ejemplares'. Sin embargo los criticos por lo general han estado de acuerdo en senalar que existe una contradiccion entre la etica que se promulga en estas naracciones espanolas, incluyendo los prologos y las sententiae, por un lado y, por otro, el contenido de la trama. En esta monografia Rabell arguye que esta ambiguedad nace a raiz de la manipulacion sutil de la retorica de la ficcion: las novelas espanolas reformulan el genero italiano con el proposito especifico o de desafiar las reglas y las normas de la Contrarreforma en Espana o de validar las mismas
Art · Counter-Reformation · Literature · Novella · Programming language · Rewriting · Theology · Computer Science · Early Modern Spanish Literature · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2019 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |