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Rewriting the Italian Novella in Counter-Reformation Spain
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Since civil, canonical, and family hierarchies were based on the same metaphor that conceives power as one body in which, by analogy, the husband is the head of his wife, as the monarch is the head of the state and the Pope is the head of the church, Spanish novellas explore the contradictions between civil and canon laws regarding marriage within the private space of the house in order to suggest further contradictions within the public sphere of the state and the church. The fictitious case provides a rhetoric to test the validity of the legal grounds of Counter-Reformation Spain.
En la atmósfera sofocante y inquisitorial de la Contrarreforma, los narradores españoles - al reformular la novela italiana -- tenían la costumbre de llamar sus textos 'ejemplares'. Sin embargo los críticos por lo general han estado de acuerdo en señalar que existe una contradicción entre la ética que se promulga en estas naracciones españolas, incluyendo los prólogos y las sententiae, por un lado y, por otro, el contenido de la trama. En esta monografía Rabell arguye que esta ambigüedad nace a raíz de la manipulación sutil de la retórica de la ficción: las novelas españolas reformulan el género italiano con el propósito específico o de desafiar las reglas y las normas de la Contrarreforma en España o de validar las mismas.
CARMEN R. RABELL is associate professor, department of comparative literature, University of Puerto Rica - Rio Piedras.
180 pages; ISBN 9781846151446
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