Lope de Vega: El Arte Nuevo de hacer 'Novellas' (Monografías A) (Monografías A) [Hardcover]

Carmen R. Rabell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 3, 1992 | Series: Monografías A (Book 150)

Torn between the need to satisfy the censor and their desire to please readers, the narrators of the Spanish `novella' of the golden Age always promised teaching and delighting, although they wrote about adultery, crimes of passion and cross dressing. Many critics have stated the incompatibility of theory and practice in the Spanish 16th- and 17th-century `novella'. Carmen Rabell takes issue with this view, arguing that both the Spanish `novella' and literary theory followed the same complex tendency to mix and overlap classical, ecclesiastical and biblical discourses in order to defend imaginative literature from any possible moral or philosophical objective. She does this with reference to Novelas a Marcia Leonarda, in which Spanish literary theory is presented by a narrator who tries both to teach and seduce his ambivalent female reader.

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Language Notes

Text: Spanish

About the Author

CARMEN R. RABELL is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 94 pages
• Publisher: Tamesis Books (September 3, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855660164
• ISBN-13: 978-1855660168
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,782,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Carmen Rabell was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, grew up in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and studied at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (BS), SUNY-Stony Brook (PhD in Hispanic Literature) and Columbia University (PhD in Comparative Literature). She is currently a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico where she teaches Renaissance and Baroque Literature and theory. She has published on Lope de Vega, Cervantes, Zayas, Cinthio, Bandello, Boccaccio, the picaresque novel, Borges, Vargas Llosa, and García Márquez.