Folklore and Literature: Studies in the Portuguese, Brazilian, Sephardic, and Hispanic Oral Traditions

Explores how modern folklore, through its preservation of ballads and folktales, supplements our understanding of the oral tradition and enhances our knowledge of early literature.
Folklore and Literature shows how modern folklore supplements an understanding of the early oral tradition and enhances the knowledge of the early literature. Besides documenting how writers incorporated folklore into their works, this book allows us to understand crucial passages whose learned authors took for granted a familiarity with the oral tradition, thus enabling us to restore those passages to their intended meaning.
Studying the vicissitudes of oral transmission in great detail, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to the relationship between folklore and literature in a Luso-Brazilian context, taking into account the pan-Hispanic and other traditions as well.
Some of the folkloric passages included are: Puputiriru; Celestina; El idolatra de Maria; Remando Vao Remadores; Barca Bela; Flerida; and Don Duarodos.

About the author

Manuel da Costa Fontes is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Kent State University. He is the author and editor of many books including most recently Cancioneiro Tradicional de Tras-os-Montes (coedited with Samuel G. Armistead).

Product details

• Authors: Manuel Da Costa Fontes
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780791444917
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4491-7
• No. of pages: 335
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Latin American; Suny Latin American and Iberia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American