Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor's Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Section I. Discourses on Iberian literary history
6. The European horizon of Peninsular literary historiographical discourses 1
7. Historiography and the geo-literary imaginary 53
8. Section II. The Iberian Peninsula as a literary space
9. Introduction: The Iberian Peninsula as a literary space 133
10. Identitarian projections: Between isolationism and reintegrationism
11. The hidden history of tripartite Iberianism 138
12. On Lusism and Lusofonia 163
13. Travel writing 183
14. Cities, cultural centers and enclaves
15. Empires waxing and waning 211
16. Bilbao and the literary system in the Basque Country 222
17. Contemporary Catalan literature 237
18. Literary and cultural production centers in Galicia (1840–1936) 253
19. Cities, cultural centers, and peripheries
20. From Iberia to Africa 268
21. Southern Spain 278
22. The Canaries 290
23. Insulated voices looking for the world 309
24. Section III. The multilingual literary space of the Iberian Peninsula
25. Introduction: Multilingualism and literature in the Iberian Peninsula 325
26. Bilingualism and Diglossia in Medieval Iberia (350–1350) 333
27. The impact of Arabic diglossia among the Muslims, Jews and Christians of al-Andalus 351
28. The Jewish Literature in Medieval Iberia 366
29. The Latin language, a European linguistic continuum 386
30. Galician-Portuguese as a literary language in the Middle Ages 396
31. Castilian and Portuguese in the sixteenth century 413
32. Literary language and diatopic variation 429
33. Basque as a literary language 445
34. Ideology and image of Peninsular languages in Spanish literature 456
35. Section IV. Dimensions of orality
36. Introduction to Dimensions of orality 475
37. Comparativism and orality 478
38. Epic and ballad in the Hispanic tradition 502
39. The traditional Iberian lyric of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age 510
40. Linguistic borders and oral transmission 536
41. Iberian traditions of international folktale 553
42. Literature and new forms of orality 562
43. Section V. Temporal frames and literary (inter-)systems
44. Introduction: Temporal frames and literary (inter-)systems 575
45. Building a literary model 582
46. Literature at the crossroads of politics 595
47. The court of the Catholic Monarchs (1474–1504), or the break in the equilibrium among Peninsular languages 601
48. Theatrical repertoire models in Portugal 614
49. The Spanish literary system in the nineteenth century 630
50. The dialogue of Iberian literary nationalisms 641
51. The shifting systems for literary creation in the novel during the transition and democracy (1975–82) 653
52. References 665
53. Index 727