Code: 02081775

Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age

Name: Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
SKU: 02081775
Price: 125.46 EUR
Availability: InStock

by Nigel Griffin

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 284
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008
More about this

125.46 €

Low in stock at our supplier
Shipping in 13 - 16 days

Potřebujete více kusů?Máte-li zájem o více kusů, prověřte, prosím, nejprve dostupnost titulu na naši zákaznické podpoře.

Add to wishlist

Recording Music on Location
48.04 € -12 %
Buy
Thin Blue Line
30.98 € -13 %
Buy
Hotel Years
24.21 €
Buy
Confucius Says
28.66 €
Buy
Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill's Wild West
12.81 € -18 %
Buy
Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States
44.20 € -9 %
Buy
Saints and Postmodernism
46.22 €
Buy

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

More about Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age

Book details
Synopsis
Trending among others

You get 315 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Collections of traditional Spanish ballads were made in the early seventeenth century; some recorded directly from singers, others reworked by educated poets. So popular were these that Court poets composed ballads of their own. Most Spanish poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries circulated in manuscript among a small coterie of wits and fellow poets, and it often contains references to contemporary events and people, sideswipes at institutions and individuals, and allusions to other writings of the time. The modern reader has to know about the people and events criticized and lampooned, and everything from municipal by-laws to contemporary painting can prove helpful. The traditional popular associations of the ballad also led to many poets combining in their poems the language of the street alongside that of polite society and the schoolroom.This volume discusses some of the problems encountered by anglophone students and teachers of literature when they turn to the Golden-Age ballad and offers informed guidance on how such poems might be read. The nine poems discussed have been chosen with such difficulties in mind and a strophe-by-strophe prose translation is provided for each, followed by a detailed critical analysis. It is edited by Nigel Griffin, Clive Griffin, Eric Southworth And Colin Thompson, all of Oxford University. The other contributors include: Oliver Noble-Wood, John Rutherford, and Ronald Truman.