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Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Sol Miguel-Prendes

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Citation

De Souza R (2021) Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Sol Miguel-Prendes. Modern Language Review, 116 (4), pp. 662-664. https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2021.0019

Abstract
First paragraph: The existence and definition of a late medieval genre of ¡®sentimental fiction¡¯ in Iberia have been repeatedly contested. There have been numerous discussions regarding which texts comprise the genre, while its purportedly unifying characteristics¡ªe.g. courtly love, pseudo-autobiography, metafiction, intertextuality, tragic endings¡ª have failed to provide a definitive link between the texts in question. What scholars tend to agree on, however, is that there is something special about these works and that a common focus on internal psychology and subjectivity anticipates the modern novel.

Keywords
Literature and Literary Theory; Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics

Journal
Modern Language Review: Volume 116, Issue 4

StatusPublished
Funders
Publication date31/12/2021
Publication date online31/10/2021
Date accepted by journal01/04/2021
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PublisherProject MUSE
ISSN0026-7937

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Dr Rebecca De Souza

Dr Rebecca De Souza

Lecturer in Spanish, Spanish