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• Heteroglossia and Discoursive Traditions: the Burlesque Style in Barco Centenera’s Epic Poem Argentina

  E. Gambetta

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  The aim of this paper is to analyze the burlesque style in Martin del Barco Centenera’s epic poem Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata. In the first place, the notion of «discoursive traditions» is treated to give a wide framing to the text. Then, the concept of heteroglossia is analyzed and commented its use in the poem, regarding the use of anecdotes and three burlesque resources: irony, satire and grotesque. All these features enjoy the poem´s didactic style and intention of the work, becoming a text wich is new somehow to this tradition.

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  The aim of this paper is to analyze the burlesque style in Martin del Barco Centenera’s epic poem Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata. In the first place, the notion [...]

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• Litanic Tradition in Lope de Vega’s Works

  M. Zuzankiewicz

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (2), 1

  
  

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  At the time of the Counter-Reformation the litanies of the Virgin, of the Holy Name of Jesus and of the Blessed Sacrament play an important role in the liturgical field, but also serve as inspiration for religious poets such as Lope de Vega. In order to determine the influence of these prayers in Lope’s verses we apply in this article two compatible research methods proposed by José Lebrero Fradejas and Witold Sadowski, the «litanic form» and the «litanic verse» respectively, that imply the analysis of their formal structure and content. We also focus on the poet’s deep knowledge of the mariological, christological and eucharistic tradition, that reflect his devotional compositions.

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  At the time of the Counter-Reformation the litanies of the Virgin, of the Holy Name of Jesus and of the Blessed Sacrament play an important role in the liturgical field, but [...]

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• Hernán Cortés’ Tears in the Historia verdadera by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

  F. Mansilla

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  This article analyzes the function of Hernán Cortés’ tears in the Historia verdadera by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Some critics have read Cortés’ weeping as a sign of weakness. Actually, the tears of the hero are a manifestation that links the figure of the conqueror —and by extension the whole text— to the classical epic tradition, as well as to an incipient concept of tragedy.

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  This article analyzes the function of Hernán Cortés’ tears in the Historia verdadera by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Some critics have read Cortés’ weeping as a sign [...]

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• The Hermeneutical Horizon and the Ethnohistoric Value in the Philological Annotation of the «Libro de los ritos» (1579) Written by friar Diego Durán (OP)

  P. Montes

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  The following discussion offers a panorama of the hermeneutical horizon from which the philological annotation apparatus of the Libro de los ritos critical edition was created. The book, written by the Dominican friar Diego Durán in 1579, describes the religious life of the Nahua people with emphasis in the Mexicas or Aztecs of the postclassical period. Also, this work offers some considerations about the ethnohistorical value of the Libro de los ritos and explains how this idea was used as a hypothesis to create the philological annotation apparatus of the critical edition. The value of the analysis of this experience is the contribution that it offers to the discussion between philologists about the proper methodology that must be used for the critical annotation of the Indian chronicles, documents that conserve the memory of the Native American people.

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  The following discussion offers a panorama of the hermeneutical horizon from which the philological annotation apparatus of the Libro de los ritos critical edition was created. [...]

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• Narrative Models and Rhetorical Aspects of the Hagiographical Genre in the Historia eclesiástica indiana, by Jerónimo de Mendieta

  M. Serna

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  After an introductory discussion of textual issues of the Historia eclesiástica indiana, the article studies certain rhetorical aspects of this chronicle: the abundant biographies of Franciscan friars who lived and preached in the New World, and the abundant use of miracles, supernatural visions and divine revelations. Mendieta also describes several instances of martyrdom of missionary friars. Finally, Mendieta uses the image of childlike innocence to describe Indians as genus angelicum.

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  After an introductory discussion of textual issues of the Historia eclesiástica indiana, the article studies certain rhetorical aspects of this chronicle: the abundant biographies [...]

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• Indigenous women in Spanish American Historic Epic Poetry

  L. Segas

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  Epic poetry has always been considered a masculine genre. The eruption of a group identity, masculine, white, aristocratic and christian, is the result of the representation and the exclusion of the Other, fictitious and singular, but in fact composed of a variety of ethnic groups, origins, sex, genders, religions and different degrees between fiction and historicity. Indeed, in the historical epic poetry which narrated the Conquest, except for the conquistadors listed at length and the indigenous kings and caciques, only few characters are distinguished by a historical individualisation. The Other, Amerindian and female, makes a shy entrance into history, into singularity, into the (historical and christian) truth. It is the case of interpreters: Malinche and India Catalina, only historical native women that appear as part of the narrative plot as well as in the conquest enterprise in the poems of Lasso de la Vega (Cortés valeroso y Mexicana, Mexicana), of Juan de Castellanos (Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias) and of Saavedra Guzmán (El peregrino indiano).

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  Epic poetry has always been considered a masculine genre. The eruption of a group identity, masculine, white, aristocratic and christian, is the result of the representation [...]

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• Edition and Traslation of the «Carta a lord Burghley» by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  A. Oehrli, J. Zuleta

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  In the following article we present an unpublished and unknown text of Galician discoverer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. The letter, wrote in Latin, was send to Lord Burghley, the first minister of Elizabeth Tudor. Its content links chro-nicles and legends of Spain and Galicia to the genealogy of Sarmiento de Gamboa. Here, we offer the biographical context of the letter, a brief study of the sources, apart from the transcription of the original and the translation of the text into Spanish.

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  In the following article we present an unpublished and unknown text of Galician discoverer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa. The letter, wrote in Latin, was send to Lord Burghley, [...]

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• Lope de Vega and the Meanings of Book Ownership

  L. Rouhi

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  Lope de Vega’s late poem «Ayer vi la librería» appears at first sight to be a laudatory description of King Felipe IV’s personal library. Upon close inspection, and within the broader context of book history in Spain, the poem brings to light a quiet ambivalence about book ownership. This is related at once to Lope’s own disappointments with the Monarchy and the contradictory attitudes to the functions of books in Spain in the XVIIth century.

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  Lope de Vega’s late poem «Ayer vi la librería» appears at first sight to be a laudatory description of King Felipe IV’s personal library. Upon close inspection, and [...]

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• Arabic Origin of an Unique Tale in Juan de Robles’ Works

  D. Bernal

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  Despite of the influence of the Arabic literary models and themes they were relegated into the background after the Middle Ages; nevertheless it is possible to trace those elements in the oral and written literature during the Golden Ages. An example of this influence could be the tale wrote by Juan de Robles included in his work entitled Tardes del Alcázar. This article turns on his Arabic origins and shows up his nearest antecedent in the Iberian Peninsula, which is the starting point of our comparative study within the Robles version of the tale.

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  Despite of the influence of the Arabic literary models and themes they were relegated into the background after the Middle Ages; nevertheless it is possible to trace those [...]

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• Violence and Versification in «Renegado, rey y mártir» by Cristóbal de Morales

  J. Tierno

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2016). Vol. 4, (1), 1

  
  

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  A current tendency in Spanish Golden Age theatre studies is dramatic segmentation. In this sense, we must emphasize Marc Vitseʼs methodology, which suggests structuring the play according to the versification changes. We are going to put into practice this theory with a work by an unknown playwright: Renegado, rey y mártir by Cristóbal de Morales. We will verify that versification does actually help when dividing and hierarchising the different moments of the play. At Renegado, rey y mártir violence is important due to the fact that it causes the strophic changes and structures the plot.

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  A current tendency in Spanish Golden Age theatre studies is dramatic segmentation. In this sense, we must emphasize Marc Vitseʼs methodology, which suggests structuring the [...]

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