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• The Mario Vargas Llosa’s «niña mala»: Literary Descendant from the Picaresque?

  G. Pollarolo

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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  The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship, from an intertextual  perspective, between Las travesuras de la niña mala by Mario Vargas Llosa (2006), and the picaresque genre developed in Spain during the 16th and 17th century. In order to achieve this aim, I will take into account the filiation discourse and the appearance of the picaresque canon, as well as the female picaresque works ignored by the critics. Vargas Llosa draws the character of the «niña mala» gathering charateristics which belong both to male and female picaro.

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  The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship, from an intertextual  perspective, between Las travesuras de la niña mala by Mario Vargas Llosa (2006), and the [...]

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• The «Epistle of Amarilis to Belardo», a Missive from Mestizo Peru to Spain

  J. Font, R. Ramos-Tremolada

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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  This article is a new interpretation of the Epistle of Amarilis to Belardo. Using a close reading of text and a detailed analysis of the text’s sources, we discover that it is more than just a complaint from one of Lope’s female admirers, finding that the letter by Amarilis, in the tradition of El Inca Garcilaso, is the Peruvian mestizo’s cry (Amarilis) for «another» homeland ­—«Spain», as symbolized by Lope.

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  This article is a new interpretation of the Epistle of Amarilis to Belardo. Using a close reading of text and a detailed analysis of the text’s sources, we discover that [...]

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• Review of Fray Toribio de Benavente, “Motolinía”, Historia de los indios de la Nueva España, ed. Mercedes Serna Arnaiz y Bernat Castany Prado, Madrid, RAE/CECE, 2014, 559 pp. (ISBN: 978-84-617-0715-7)

  G. Serés

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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  Book's review

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• On the Meanings of Bilingualism in Jorge de Montemayor’s «Diana»: the Symbolic Dimension of the Mondego Fields

  M. Anacleto

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  This article discusses the meanings of bilingualism in Jorge de Montemayor’s Diana. This microanalysis aims to demonstrate the centrality of this no­vel within the aesthetic framework of Iberian baroque. In a close reading analysis, the fleeting love story between the two Portuguese shepherds, Duarda and Danteo, located in the last book of the Siete Libros de la Diana, is viewed as a strategic mise en abyme for the construction of a ‘modern’ perspective on the baroque universe of the «libros de pastores», and the consequent transition from bucolic lyricism to bucolic narrative. This will be the central argument for this reflection, anchored on a plural vision of the interconnections between Portugal and Spanish literature in the «Siglo de Oro».

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  This article discusses the meanings of bilingualism in Jorge de Montemayor’s Diana. This microanalysis aims to demonstrate the centrality of this no­vel within the aesthetic [...]

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• Mechanisms of Secrets and Secrecy in «El secretario confuso» by Jacinto Cordeiro

  M. Cereceda

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  This article studies the mechanism of secrets and secrecy in El secretario confuso (1634), comedy by Jacinto Cordeiro; he is a playwright that belongs to the group of lusitan authors that write in Spanish during the Dual Monarchy period (1580-1640). This work, that can be included in the secretario subtype of comedia palatina genre —based on the infatuation between a noble lady and her secretary— shows thematic and structural coincidences with the main comedies of this moda­lity —El perro del hortelano by Lope de Vega and El vergonzoso en palacio by Tirso de Molina—, but providing new variations to this corpus focussed on the communicational dynamics of remaining silent, concealing and declaring love between the different characters.

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  This article studies the mechanism of secrets and secrecy in El secretario confuso (1634), comedy by Jacinto Cordeiro; he is a playwright that belongs to the group of lusitan [...]

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• An Approach to the Topic of Cheating in some Comedies by Lope de Vega

  J. Berbel

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (1), 1

  
  

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  This paper gives an overview of the different mechanisms of deception in the plays of Lope de Vega. The typology of these delusions is reviewed and then applied to several Lope de Vega’s plays.

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  This paper gives an overview of the different mechanisms of deception in the plays of Lope de Vega. The typology of these delusions is reviewed and then applied to several [...]

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• The Dramatic Hidden Details in the Hagiographical Comedies by Pérez de Montalbán. The Case of «El divino portugués, san Antonio de Padua»

  J. Escudero

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  This article focuses on the mechanisms and the dramatic features of the hagiographic comedies of Juan Pérez de Montalbán, from the analysis of a little-studied drama, El divino portugués, San Antonio de Padua, an excellent example of comedia de santos gender and a good example of the dramatic art of Pérez de Montalbán.

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  This article focuses on the mechanisms and the dramatic features of the hagiographic comedies of Juan Pérez de Montalbán, from the analysis of a little-studied drama, El [...]

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• Tirso de Molina's comedy «Las Quinas de Portugal» and Salazar's censorship

  A. Lourenço

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  In March 1968, Portuguese censors stopped the broadcast on public television —which was the only television network at the time— of Tirso de Molina’s comedy Las quinas de Portugal. This play stages the most important creation myth for the Portuguese nation: on the eve of the battle of Ourique, a crucified Christ appeared and offered Count Afonso Henriques his five holy wounds as a symbol for the Portuguese coat of arms. In this article, I intend to understand the ethical and political reasoning of the censors who read this play, written by one of the most important playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age

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  In March 1968, Portuguese censors stopped the broadcast on public television —which was the only television network at the time— of Tirso de Molina’s comedy Las quinas [...]

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• Francisco Botelho de Morais e Vasconcelos, Iberian poet of Pre-Illustration and Founder of the Academy of the United

  C. Machado

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  Francisco Botelho de Morais e Vasconcelos (1670-1747), a Portuguese poet of Castilian language, lived and bonded with remarkable Spanish intellectuals of his time; he reached fame while still alive, he was raised to the status of Honorary Member of the Spanish Royal Academy, and he left us a legacy which includes a prolific and ground-breaking poetic and literary work. He set up a literary academy in his own hometown, an episode we will further explore, by including an unpublished manuscript authored by some of its members. He is, notwithstanding, an insufficiently celebrated author within the ambit of Iberian Studies.

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  Francisco Botelho de Morais e Vasconcelos (1670-1747), a Portuguese poet of Castilian language, lived and bonded with remarkable Spanish intellectuals of his time; he reached [...]

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• Portugal in the Works of Bartolomé Jiménez Patón (1569-1640)

  J. Garau

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2015). Vol. 3, (2), 1

  
  

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  Throughout his works, Bartolomé Jiménez Patón mentions Portugal and some of its writers on a number of occasions. In the books that have been recovered of his Comentarios de erudición (1621), he cites authors such as Fernando López de Castañeda or Joao de Barros, who are associated with the popular vogue of the period for portentous works, of which the Spanish Humanist was so fond of. A large number of his commentaries concerning Portugal center on justifying dynastic unity, based on his interpretation of the history of Gregorio López Madera, who he admired so much, which has as its background the image of Hispania. To a certain extent, the new government of Olivares would try to carry out this policy. Of no less interest is his description of the city of Lisbon in which he presents the idea of ‘exemplariness’, a notion he has in common with other descriptions by Mateo Alemán, Cervantes or Tirso, although in Patón’s, such exemplariness appears in contrast with the picturesque depiction of the rogues of the Rua Nova.

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  Throughout his works, Bartolomé Jiménez Patón mentions Portugal and some of its writers on a number of occasions. In the books that have been recovered of his Comentarios [...]

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