The Novel before the Novel in Sixteenth-Century Spain

2015 ◽  
pp. 56-78
Author(s):  
E. Michael Gerli
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Novel

The Anatomy of Eroticism: Reimagining Sex and Sexuality in the Late Ming Novel Xiuta Yeshi

NAN Nü ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-329
Author(s):  
Ka Wong
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Material World ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Relationships ◽  
Late Ming ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
New Interpretation

AbstractDue to its explicit and outrageous sexual content, Xiuta yeshi is often deemed an "obscene book" that lacks literary sophistication. Precisely because of its obscenity, however, the novel provides a unique perspective from which to study the discourse of sex and sexuality in the late Ming period. By examining Xiuta yeshi on its own terms as pornography, one can explore more fully the dynamics of gender, desire, and male-female relationships in this supposedly decadent era. In its construct of eroticism, the novel hinges as much on the detailed recounting of the material world and, in particular, a new interpretation of the human body, as on sex itself. Using foul language to exploit most of the modern pornographic tropes—from rape to orgy to both male and female homosexual acts—this late sixteenth-century work not only redefines a popular genre but also reveals the exhilarating, extravagant, and even grotesque aspects of a libertine culture captivated by and capitalizing on sex.

Chivalric Romance and Novella Collections

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Moore
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The Novel ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chivalric Romance

This chapter argues that the sixteenth-century novella collection and chivalric romance have much in common. However, their length, status as translations, and multiple authorships have rendered their comparison difficult and have limited their role in studies of pre-novelistic fiction until relatively recently. The chapter characterizes their relationship as ‘rhetorical’, because consideration of the two genres has long been dictated by their staged opposition in the traditional, dualistic narrative of the novel's origin. This narrative imagines a struggle between the past-ness and absurdities of romance and the present-ness and realism of the novel as anticipated in the early modern novella and the closely related picaresque tale. Hence, they possess an interlocking yet uncomfortable — even antagonistic — rhetorical relationship in the literary history of the novel in English.

Adaptive Imitation

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-205
Author(s):  
Colin Burrow
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Epic Tradition

This chapter explores how the debates about the imitation of Cicero in the early sixteenth century influenced the theory and practice of imitatio. It concentrates on two works published in 1528: Erasmus’s dialogue Ciceronianus and Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. It shows how both texts developed a view of the imitator not as a verbal replicator but as someone who learnt an ability to speak aptly to any occasion—hence the term ‘adaptive’ imitation. This concept is explored in relation to the theory and practice of epic and romance poetry in the sixteenth century, from Boiardo and Ariosto, through Tasso, to Spenser. Adaptive imitation created acute stress between two senses of ‘imitation’ in the epic tradition: was an imitator to imitate the ethics and behaviour of a heroic character, or to adapt both heroic values and past writing to the present times? That question is developed in relation to Cervantes’s Don Quixote, in which an imitator who directly replicates the actions of a prior figure becomes increasingly unapt to his own times, and subsequently encounters simulacral imitations of himself. That key text in the emergence of the new genre of the novel grows in part from the complex arguments about imitatio in the early sixteenth century.

scholarly journals Identidade cultural relida: leitura e memória coletiva no romance O outro pé da sereia de Mia Couto

Navegações ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Marcelo Franz ◽  
Victor De Barros Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Past Experiences

Analisamos a representação do ato leitor na obra O Outro Pé da Sereia (2006), de Mia Couto. O romance entende a leitura como veículo de reprocessamento da memória coletiva, termo que abordaremos sob a ótica de Maurice Halbwachs (2006). Dividida em duas épocas, (situadas nos anos de 2002 e 1560) a ação romanesca se centra na viagem realizada pelaprotagonista, Mwadia até sua comunidade de origem a fim de abrigar a estátua de uma santa comum dos pés arrancados, encontrada às margens de um rio. Junto com a imagem, ela encontrou documentos que descrevem a expedição do jesuíta D. Gonçalo para difusão do Catolicismo naÁfrica no século XVI. O contato com esses objetos resulta na recuperação e ressignificação de experiências passadas, a partir dos conteúdos lidos. Isso redefine a própria individualidade deMwadia e sua relação com a comunidade.*** Reinterpreted cultural identity: reading and collective memory in the Mia Couto’s novel O outro pé da sereia ***This paper analyzes the representation reading in the Mia Couto’s novel O outro pé da sereia (2006), Mia Couto. The novel understands reading as reprocessing vehicle of collective memory, a term which will be discussed from the perspective of Maurice Halbwachs (2006). Divided in temporal plots, situated in 2002 and 1560, the novelistic action focuses on the journey of the protagonist Mwadia till her community of origin in order to shelter the statue of a saint without one foot that was found on the banks of a river. Along with the image, she founds some documents that described the D. Gonçalo’s expedition to spread Catholicism in Africa in the sixteenth century. The contact with these objects results in the recuperation andresignification of past experiences. The reading content redefines Mwadia’s individuality andrelation with the community.Keywords: memory; reading; Mia Couto.

An Analysis of Culture Shock from West to East as Seen in Reilly’s The Tournament

TEKNOSASTIK ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Desma Lina ◽  
Dwi Budi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This article will explore about west and east cultures in the sixteenth century and some issues which occurred when both cultures encounters. The issue that appears when both cultures encounter is that of culture shock. The purpose of this research is to disclose how culture shock happens when both culture, west and east meet. In this research, the writers use concept of culture as the foundation of the research. Further, the analysis is done by implementing Oberg’s culture shock theory. To arrange this research, the writers apply library study and descriptive-qualitative method. The data that collected by the writers are in the form of narration and quotation. The source of the data coming from a novel entitled The Tournament by Mathew Reilly. The result of the analysis shows that there are two types of culture that are found inside the novel, visible and invisible cultures. Visible culture consists of cultural artifacts that can be noticed easily. Meanwhile the invisible part of culture is a culture that cannot be noticed easily but it does exist and holds important role in human life. Further, the phenomenon of culture shock proven by the character of Elizabeth who experience all stages of culture shock which are Honeymoon stage (Excitement), Crisis stage (Depression), Development stage (Learning process) and Adjustment stage (Accepting).

Cross-Sections (2)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Humphrey Newcomb
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
Leisure Reading ◽  
The Status ◽  
Formal Features

This chapter looks at Elizabethan prose fiction. Once combed mainly for formal features that might presage the novel, Elizabethan prose fiction is today appreciated for its own distinctive energy and heterogeneity. However, prose fiction in the sixteenth century still was largely an experimental genre. For writers willing to move beyond set forms, prose narrative offered new freedoms to enhance the status of English letters while drawing freely on Continental sources, to develop prose style while incorporating verse elements, to claim usefulness while indulging writerly and readerly pleasure, and to vaunt exclusivity while driving the expansion of the leisure-reading audience. Above all, fiction was the genre in which writers could best experiment with ways to reconcile literary ambition and unapologetic commercialism.

scholarly journals Utilité et diversité du «romanzo»: Giraldi Cinzio et le contexte français

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Mawy Bouchard
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Internal Logic ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
The One

Great epic theories of the Renaissance, mainly inspired by Aristotelian poetics, do not deal with the most widely spread narrative practice of the sixteenth century. The first theoretician of the novel (“romanzo”), Giraldi Cinzio, whose “pre-aristotelian” conception might seem a little backward, establishes a break between ancient and modern narrative. The two traditions are based on different notions of the text: on the one hand, as an object of contemplation with its own internal logic; on the other hand, as an instrument of edification dedicated to the pleasure of and usefulness to as wide and “diverse” a readership as possible. The Giraldian model is more often observed in France, contrary to what the Pléiade accustomed its readers to believe.

scholarly journals Foreign Cloth, Local Habits: Clothing, Regalia, and the Art of Conversion in the Early Modern Kingdom of Kongo

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-31
Author(s):  
Cécile Fromont
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
New Material

ABSTRACT From their king’s decision to embrace Catholicism at the turn of the sixteenth century to the advent of imperial colonialism in the late eighteen hundreds, the men and women of the central African kingdom of Kongo creatively mixed, merged, and redefined local and foreign visual forms, religious thought, and political concepts into the novel, coherent, but also constantly evolving worldview of Kongo Christianity. Sartorial practices and regalia in particular showcased the artful conversion of the realm under the impetus of its monarchs and aristocrats. In their clothing and insignia, the kingdom’s elite combined and recast foreign and local, old and new, material and emblems into heralds of Kongo Christian power, wealth, and, eventually history. I propose to use the concept of the space of correlation as a key to analyze these elaborate, and constantly evolving religious, political, and material transformations through an attentive focus on cultural objects such as clothing, hats, swords, and saint figures.

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