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1 online resource (xii, 271 pages) : illustrations, digital ; 24 cm |
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The new middle ages |
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New middle ages
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Chapter 1: The Scope of Illegitimacy -- Chapter 2: Epic Illegitimacy: the Cantar de Mio Cid and Las Mocedades de Rodrigo -- Chapter 3: Split Identity: Illegitimacy in the Romancero -- Chapter 4: Narrating Illegitimacy: the Novelas ejemplares -- Chapter 5: Lope de Vega's Bastard Heroes: Pieces and Traces |
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Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature presents illegitimacy as a fluid, creative, and negotiable concept in early literature which challenges society's definition of what is acceptable. Through the medieval epic poems Cantar de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo, the ballad tradition, Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares, and Lope de Vega's theatre, Geraldine Hazbun demonstrates that illegitimacy and legitimacy are interconnected and flexible categories defined in relation to marriage, sex, bodies, ethnicity, religion, lineage, and legacy. Both categories are subject to the uncertainties and freedoms of language and fiction and frequently constructed around axes of quantity and completeness. These literary texts, covering a range of illegitimate figures, some with an historical basis, demonstrate that truth, propriety, and standards of behaviour are not forged in the law code or the pulpit but in literature's fluid system of producing meaning |
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Springer Nature eBook
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Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Illegitimacy in literature
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Illegitimate children in literature
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Medieval Literature
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Literary History
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European Literature
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History of Medieval Europe
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Medieval Philosophy
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History of Religion
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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