This dissertation analyses the reception of Juan de Mena's Laberinto de Fortuna (1444) in the XV century by Hernán Núñez, and in the XVI century by Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas “ El Brocense.” The study takes into account the motives that made Laberinto de Fortuna one of Spain's most commented works, in a time when the printing press just arrived in the Iberian Peninsula. The “Introduction” examines the advent of the printing press as an instrument that allowed for the creation of a literary canon that had protonationalistic undertones, and it establishes the political tone of the poem, and its peculiarities that differentiate it from the other major literary productions of the XV century. The first chapter, “Mena y su siglo,” presents a study of a century that is crucial for the understanding of Spain's literary creation in the Golden Age, by taking a look into the historical, political, and social aspects that form the intertextuality of Mena's Laberinto de Fortuna. It both takes a look at the role of the reader in the text, and the ability to interpret the signs that form its inner structure. In the second chapter, “Hernán Núñez leyendo a Mena,” the role of the reader is studied as it is documented in Hernán Núñez's commentary to El Laberinto de Fortuna: La Glosa de las Trescientas. In essence, this chapter presents a study of how an author becomes part of a literary canon, and it presents the challenge of concretizing the interpretation of a text from one century to the next. The third chapter, “Las Anotaciones: El Brocense y la edición de 1582,” concludes this study by presenting how the advent of the printing press has evolved from its arrival in Spain, and how books were read, and circulated from one medium to the next.

Orientador: Haquira Osakabe / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-21T12:32:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Candolo-Camara_Teresa_M.pdf: 41431697 bytes, checksum: 72ce14ba545aff68a2666609fcc78f06 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996 / Resumo: O Conto de Amam, texto em prosa medieval, em português do século XN, tem sido filiado a duas tradições literárias distintas: a produção hagiográfica medieval e os relatos de navegação da literatura céltica. Esta dissertação tem por objetivo perseguir no texto do Conto de Amam os elementos que justifiquem essa dupla filiação. Para tanto, recorreu-se à leitura de obras que tratassem a hagiografia enquanto subgênero literário distinto e que reconstituissem a imagem do santo medieval. Fundamentando-se no estudo de tais obras, procedeu-se à análise do Conto enquanto expressão do gênero hagiográfico. Num segundo momento, buscaram-se testemunhos dos relatos de navegação célticos, mais especificamente os imrama, bem como obras que focalizassem a cultura celta de maneira geral, para verificar as possíveis relações entre essas epopéias e as hagiografias Conto de Amam e Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (ambas relatos medievais de viagens ao Paraíso Terreal). SeJecionaram-se os dois imrama mais freqüentemente associados a essas duas hagiografias, Navegação de Bran e Imram Mael duin, e realizou-se a comparação dos quatros textos. Os resultados obtidos mostraram que, inserido na produção hagiográfica medieval, o Conto de Amam apresenta um santo cuja figura constrói-se sobre o desejo de ver o Paraíso Terreal, o que esse santo consegue "polla graça e esforço queem deus tomou". Ou seja, ele alcança seus objetivos através do milagre da graça concedida por Deus e através de suas virtudes ou esforços pessoais. Por outro lado, o Conto de Amam mostrou-se tributário dos imrama, bem corno a Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, por desenvolver, de maneira pouco alterada, a tópica céltica da quête da Terra das Fadas, em que os heróis buscavam um Outro Mundo maravilhoso sob as águas do oceano / Abstract: Conto de Amaro (Tale of Amaro), a text in medieval prose, written in XIV century Portuguese, has been related to two distinct literary traditions: 1. the medieval hagiographical tradition and 2. the navigation narratives of Celtic culture. The objective of the present dissertation is to identify elements in Conto de Amaro that provide evidence of this double relationship. For that reason, several works dealing with hagiography as a distinct literary sub-genre were studied in order to reconstruct the figure of this medieval saint. On the basis of the study of these works, Conto de Amaro was subsequently analyzed as an expression of the hagiographical literature. In a second phase of project, research efforts concentrated on the study of Celtic culture in a more general manner, in order to trace possible connections and relationships between these epopees and hagiographies Conto de Amaro and Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (Both of which are medieval narratives of journeys to the Terrestrial Paradise). The two imrama that are most frequently associated with the above mentioned hagiographies. ... Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations / Mestrado / Teoria Literaria / Mestre em Letras

Jean Froissart’s Chroniques, composed of four Books, relate the first stages of the Anglo-French conflict later known as the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453). This thesis explores Froissart’s textual journey(s) to Gascon lands (south-west of modern-day France) and history/stories. Relying on Gérard Genette’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s narrative theories, it uses literary and narratological tools to analyse three passages from Book I and III concerned with Gascony: the Earl of Derby’s Gascon campaigns (Chapter 1); the Black Prince’s Gascon campaigns and the principality of Aquitaine (Chapter 2); Froissart’s personal journey to and stay at the court of Gaston Fébus, count of Foix-Béarn (Chapter 3). One aim of the study is to investigate the representation of the region but it also argues that the Gascon passages have wider implications for the Chroniques, Froissart’s work as a whole, and the writing of history in the fourteenth century. At the turn of the twentieth century, Froissart’s ‘history’ was often disparagingly discussed by scholars due to factual inaccuracy and literary embellishments: such a ‘historical narrative’, it was felt, fell short of history and was nothing more than an entertaining story presenting outdated chivalric ideals. Although this approach has been partly revised, some critics still view the Chroniques’ earlier Books as being a narratively straightforward reflection of such a chivalric ideology, lacking critical hindsight on fourteenth-century events and society, and thus presenting paradoxical and irreconcilable tensions with later Books to the extent that they are occasionally deemed to be an entirely different kind of work than their later counterparts. The narrative thread of Froissart’s Gascon (hi)story explored here allows the revision of such views and shows that Froissart’s narrative is far from narratively and ideologically straightforward. This complexity is present as early as the first versions of the Book I, which should be envisaged in parallel, not in opposition, with the ‘later’ Chroniques. Similarly, the various tensions (e.g. fiction/history; ideal/real) underpinning the whole work, manifested in the portrayal of Gascony/the Gascons, are best approached in terms of co-existence, not antagonism. Such a multi-faceted work (a mirror and/or product of the fourteenth century?), à mi-chemin between history and fiction, between conflicting yet co-existing perspectives, is precisely what makes Froissart’s Chroniques valuable to literary critics, philologists, and historians alike.

Der Vortrag verfolgt die Geschichte und rhetorischen Funktionalisierungen des Seneca-Zitats, dass es nicht darauf ankomme, wer spricht, sondern allein darauf, was gesagt werde, von der Spätantike bis ins Spätmittelalter. Das Zitat erweist sich als polyfunktional: Geistlichen dient es zur Absicherung gegenüber der Gemeinde, Akademikern hilft es in Fällen anonymer Überlieferung - sogar eine Frau, die über das Waffenhandwerk publiziert, lenkt damit von sich als Verfasserin ab.