Gaiferos y su caballo. Avatares de un romance, del "Quijote" a la tradición oral moderna
The romance of Gaiferos frees Melisendra, still a part of the Pan-Hispanic oral tradition, was published in many xvith Century broadsheets and Cancioneros, an editorial success that culminated with its appearance in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. In this article I propose that beyond utilizing the Gaiferos...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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El Colegio de México
2009
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| Online Access: | https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/2405 |
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Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica |
| Summary: | The romance of Gaiferos frees Melisendra, still a part of the Pan-Hispanic oral tradition, was published in many xvith Century broadsheets and Cancioneros, an editorial success that culminated with its appearance in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. In this article I propose that beyond utilizing the Gaiferos’ romance to create the extraordinary and amusing chapter on Master Peter’s puppet show, the romance plays a very important role in the development of don Quixote’s character when his trajectory as a knight-errant is in crisis. |
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