La ficció sentimental catalana de la segona meitat del s. XV

Description

A series of works were written in the second half of the fifteenth century that shared the same motifs and rhetorical resources concerning love passion (theorization about love, description of love symptoms, first-person narrators, use of allegories and letters, prosimetrum, sentimental imagery). It was not the genesis of a new genre, but it was the development of a new literary trend known as 'sentimental romance'. This thesis deals with the first comprehensive overview of Catalan sentimental romance. To this purpose, a census was created. It contains all the works (translations, original texts and works in prose or in verse) that should be studied in relation to this trend. Moreover, the census showed critical gaps that had to be addressed, such as the need for an edition and a study of Faula de Diana ('Diana's Fable') and the unpublished work Requesta ('Love Request'), both written by Francesc Alegre. The analysis of Faula de Diana reveals it was influenced by Tragèdia de Caldesa ('Caldesa's Tragedy') by Joan Roís de Corella and Alegre's Catalan translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Last but not least, this thesis also contains an annex with the edition of Paris and Vienne's Catalan version which has been based on the incunable preserved at The Royal Library in Copenhagen. The comparison between this version and the French one is certainly useful in order to understand the nature of sentimental romance as a literary trend.