A view from Basque literature

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Presidential Preface to Vol. 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Section I. Images
6. Inter(-in)ventions 5
7. Galician literature and the imaginary 11
8. “Catalonia is not Spain” 20
9. On the origins of images of gypsies 32
10. The others in Golden Age drama 43
11. Images of the “condemned” Europeans in the satiric works of Francisco de Quevedo 55
12. Vulnerability and the literary imagination in the Basque context 64
13. The odyssey of Spanish Jews 74
14. Self-images and hetero-images in Portuguese youth literature 87
15. Regional images and the struggle for life in Madrilenian literature 100
16. Newcomers and host nations 112
17. Section II. Genres
18. Introduction 125
19. Sefer ha-meshalim and the status of poetry in medieval Iberia 131
20. Pastoral. The pastoral romance 138
21. Books of chivalry 155
22. The sonnet in the Iberian Peninsula in the sixteenth century 171
23. The picaresque in Iberia and America (nineteenth to twentieth century) 184
24. Religious and literary canons 200
25. The historical novel 206
26. The paths of a national idea of theatre in the Iberian Peninsula 217
27. The novel of adultery in Peninsular realist narrative 240
28. Writing of the self. Iberian diary writing 256
29. Texts and images in contemporary Spanish children’s literature 268
30. The essay 282
31. Section III. Forms of mediation
32. Forms of mediation in the history of the literatures in the Iberian Peninsula 293
33. Imitatio , rewriting and tradition 307
34. Translation and cultural mediation in the fifteenth-century Hispanic kingdoms 319
35. Paratexts and mediation 327
36. Quis libri legendi . The canon and the forms of its assimilation in Renaissance rationes studiorum 339
37. Translation in diaspora 351
38. The Atlantic-Iberian Enlightenment 364
39. The anthology as instrument of mediation 381
40. Cultural nationalism and school 400
41. The recent systemic repositioning of literature in the French Basque Country 409
42. Censorship and narrative at the crossroads in Spain and Portugal 424
43. Section IV. Cultural studies and literary repertoires
44. Forever young 439
45. Elements for a critique of the paraliterary novel in the Iberian Peninsula, 1860-1890 452
46. “Popular” spectacles in Spain during the Restoration 466
47. The phenomenon of the bestseller in the Iberian Peninsula 482
48. Postdigital fiction 498
49. The relationship between popular contemporary music and literature 507
50. “Light changes the placement of things” 520
51. Notes on the cinematographic canon and its relation to the theory of genres in a Spanish and Portuguese context 531
52. Television in Spain and Portugal 550
53. From the radio script to the sound script 563
54. Transformations of the graphic novel in Spain 570
55. Feminist, gender and LGBTQ studies in the Iberian Peninsula 579
56. Epilogue
57. A view from Basque literature 605
58. A view from Catalan literature 611
59. A view from Galician literature 621
60. A view from Portuguese literature 631
61. A view from Spanish literature. A new armed vision 639
62. A view from comparative history. International comparison 646
63. A view from comparative literary history, I 650
64. A view from comparative literary history, II 653
65. References 665
66. Bioprofiles 723
67. Index 741