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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484185203321

Autore

Hazbun Geraldine

Titolo

Reading Illegitimacy in Early Iberian Literature / / by Geraldine Hazbun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-59569-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 271 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

The New Middle Ages, , 2945-5944

Disciplina

860.9

860.93526945

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval

Literature - History and criticism

European literature

Europe - History - 476-1492

Philosophy, Medieval

Religion - History

Medieval Literature

Literary History

European Literature

History of Medieval Europe

Medieval Philosophy

History of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.