Textual Agency

Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.

Ana M. Gómez-Bravo is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington.

‘Reversing the aristocratic trend in the analysis of medieval literature, while opening academic field to more complex social and economic elements of exploration, is without a doubt the most significant achievement of this monograph.’

E. Michael Gerli:

‘This is an important book that opens the door to formulating a broad synthesis leading to a deeper understanding of how cancioneros came into being, the social role they and poetry in general played in the construction of authorial personas in fifteenth century Castile.’

Samuel Sánchez y Sánchez, Hispanic Studies Department, Davidson College:

“Textual Agency is an interesting and uniformly well-documented book. In it, Ana Gómez-Bravo offers a meticulous reading of primary sources that illuminates the interplay between the material nature of texts and the spaces and social agents that contribute to their production and dissemination.”