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9781330449639: Modern Language Notes, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)
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This book examines the origins of the pastoral novel in Spain, focusing on the work of Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Bernardim Ribeiro, and Jorge de Montemayor. The author traces the development of the genre from its roots in the ancient world, through its medieval antecedents, to its culmination in the works of these three Portuguese and Spanish writers. The book explores the ways in which these authors adapted and transformed the conventions of the pastoral novel to reflect the social and cultural realities of their time. It also examines the complex relationship between the pastoral novel and other literary genres, such as the romance and the epic. Ultimately, the book argues that the pastoral novel played a significant role in the development of Spanish literature, and that it continues to offer valuable insights into the human condition.

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It is significant to notice that at the very outset, so far as the literary survivals show, the Spanish and Portuguese pastoral poets were inclined to use their own countrymen as actors in their scenes. In this respect, to be sure, Boccaccio and the humanists had already set them an example. And it is also to be noted that in the Spanish pastoral the eulogy of Arcadia and of the Golden Age is wanting. This conception, peculiar to a de cadence in race and to disappointed hopes. Was cherished at that time in Italy alone, The Spaniards of the Moorish Conquest and of the Empire could not appreciate such a sentiment, and their literature remains un affected by it down through the first half of the sixteenth century; and such a vital differ ence in national environment is a sufficient ex planation for the slight influence of the Italian pastorals of the time on the Spanish. The latter belong to an earlier period, as far as their allegory is concerned, and depend rather on Vergil, Boccaccio and the Italian humanists of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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Baltimore, January, 1893. The Origins Of The Pastoral Novel In Spain. The last number of the Publications of the Modern Language Association (vol. vii, no.3), contains the paper on Spanish Pastoral Romances, which Dr. Rennert read at the Nashville meeting, and which he has since offered in Germany as a dissertation for the doctors degree. The object of his study is the aesthetic treatment of the subject and not its literary history. For this reason he has left to one side the discussion concerning the antecedents of the Spanish pastorals, and has preferred the statements of Ticknor and of the Italian writers to those of their opponents. In this way he affirms Sannazaro sArcadia to be the progenitor of Montemayor sDiana.

But there is another view of this question of the origin of the pastoral novels in Spain which it is important to note. In a Leipzic dissertation printed at Halle, in 1886, G.S. Schonherr disputes the theory of Ticknor and his school, and maintains that the Diana is the literary descendant of Ribeiro sMenina eMo(, a, a Portuguese story of the same period, whose author was a friend of Montemayor. Back of this discovery Schonherr does not go, and, thereby, leaves uninvestigated the general subject of the growth of the pastoral in the Peninsula.

Such an investigation, if unsatisfactory, owing to the scarcity of supporting material, is, at least, extremely interesting, and must have tempted often the students of the South Romance literatures. That nothing, however, has been published which may be called a literary history of the early pastoral, shows quite conclusively that these scholars were not satisfied with the results of their labors, and that, undoubtedly, the whole chapter must be postponed until many more manuscripts of Italy, both in Latin and in the vernacular, shall have been made available through competent publication.

In the meantime the field is open for all the essays imaginable, and which may contain more or less facts that some day may be, or may not be, confirmed by scientific conclusions. It is not then with any idea of adding to the stock of knowledge concerning the Spanish pastoral, that I point out some authors and works which may have contributed towards its development. My object is rather to call attention to one factor in the development of the novel, whether pastoral or other, which is not generally taken into sufficient consideration. This factor is the influence on prose fiction of stage performances and public recitations, whether in pantomime, songs or plays.

Some years ago, wishing to make myself familiar with some one department of comparative literature, I determined to study into the sources and the continuity of the drama, such as we know it, from Greece and Rome down to modern times. To do this understandingly it seemed that a knowledge of the fiction of antiquity and of the Middle Ages was necessary, since it was quite evident that the main subjects of theatrical representation in former times were drawn from popular traditions. So by reading the prose fiction of Greece, as it has come down to us, of Mediaeval Christendom and the early Renaissance period, I thought that light might be thrown on the drama of these different epochs. The result of carrying out this course of reading has been the reverse of what was expected at its inception. Prose fiction has thrown but little light on the drama, and none at all on its development. On the other hand, the drama has often been found at the birth of fiction, and has even presented certain kinds of novels with their plots. Stage scenes were the startingpoint of the realistic picaresco novels, as well as of the pastoral romances. And as a general rule, conceding the usual number of exceptions, I find that a period of novelwriting follows a period of dramatic excellence, and repeats, in manuscripts or in print, the leading themes of the plays of the previou.

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