Carajicomedia : parody and satire in early modern Spain : with an edition and translation of the text

Author(s)

• Domínguez, Frank

Bibliographic Information

Carajicomedia : parody and satire in early modern Spain : with an edition and translation of the text

Frank A. Domínguez

（Colección Támesis, ser. A . Monografías ; 353）

Tamesis, 2015

Note

Text in English with some Spanish

Bibliography: p. [469]-561

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina. Since Carajicomedia was published in 1519, it has been largely ignored by critics because of its strong sexual content. The author of Carajicomedia: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain believes that it is a sophisticated and complex composition that provides as good a vantage point from which to examine the ideology of the period as does La Celestina. In their poems, the writers of Carajicomedia inadvertently reveal thedeep worries of the knights and nobles who opposed the regencies of Ferdinand the Catholic and Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros pending the arrival of Charles V. Carajicomedia is therefore a harbinger of the War of the Comuneros, the great popular revolt that convulsed Spain in 1520. In this book's chapters, the author examines the parodic relationship between the text of Juan de Mena's El Laberinto de Fortuna, the glosses of Hernan Nunez's Las Trezientas, and Carajicomedia. He then turns to its actual writers and their settings, and shows how their satirical attitudes towards males, females, and conversos reveals the failure of the societal mechanisms in place to control desire and miscegenation. Carajicomedia: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain concludes with a paleographic edition of the text and appendices that contain a modern Spanish version and its Englishtranslation, as well as examine Carajicomedia's language. Frank A. Dominguez is a professor of medieval Spanish literature and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Preface Part I: Las Trezientas and Carajicomedia The Model and the Parody: Las Trezientas and Carajicomedia Authorship and Setting: The Fictional Narrators and the Real Author(s) Part II: Cultural Ideology: Gender Roles Women and Power: El Laberinto de Fortuna's Divina Providencia and Carajicomedia's Maria de Vellasco Men and Power: El Laberinto de Fortuna's Juan II and Carajicomedia's Diego Fajardo Part III: Political Satire and Ideology Carajicomedia's Satire of Individuals Propaganda and Its Uses Conclusion: The Purpose and Fate of Carajicomedia Part IV: A Paleographic Edition and Translation of Carajicomedia Appendix A: Carajicomedia: A Modern Spanish Edition Appendix B: The Erotic Language of Carajicomedia Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BC16247827
• ISBN:
  • 9781855662896
• LCCN: 2016297635
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engspa
• Original Language Code: spa
• Place of Publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxiii, 585 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ6321.C24
  • DC23 : 861.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Carajicomedia
  • LCSH : Spanish poetry -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Erotic poetry, Spanish -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Humorous poetry, Spanish -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Mena, Juan de, 1411-1456. Trescientas
  • LCSH : Satire, Spanish -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Parodies, Spanish -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07049103