Rewriting the Italian novella in counter-reformation Spain / Carmen R. Rabell.

Author/creator Rabell, Carmen
Format Book
Publication InfoWoodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Tamesis, 2003.
Description171 pages ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Spanish fiction--Classical period, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Italian fiction--To 1400. --History and criticism.
Italian fiction--15th century. --History and criticism.
Novelle--History and criticism.
Censorship--Spain. --History. --16th century.
Censorship--Spain. --History. --17th century.

SeriesColección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías. ; 199
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 199. ^A493807
Contents The theory of the novella -- Francisco de Lugo y Dávila and Francesco Bonciani's forensic readings of Aristotle -- Forensic discourse and the novella -- The role of law in the Spanish versions of Italian novellas -- Buried alive: telling the story of Romeo and Juliet in post-Tridentine Spain -- Orbecche and Ardenia: the world upside down -- The legend of two friends: changing the face of the body politic --
Contents The fictitious case and the Spanish novella -- "El celoso extremeño": arguing for and against the legal infancy of women -- Narrating the impossible: the resurrection of women -- "El andrógino" by Francisco de Lugo y Dávila : speaking from a woman's body.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index.
LCCN 2003011731
ISBN185566092X (hardback : alk. paper)