{"product_id":"the-miscellany-of-the-spanish-jonathan-david-bradbury-9781472429841","title":"The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age: A Literature of Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the service performed by the miscellanists as disseminators of knowledge and information to a popular readership. His comprehensive analysis of the \u003ci\u003emiscelánea \u003c\/i\u003ecorrects long-standing misconceptions, starting from its poorly-understood terminology, and erects divisions between it and other related genres. His work illuminates the relationship between the Golden Age Spanish miscellany and those of the classical world and humanist milieu, and illustrates how the vernacular tradition moved away from these forebears. Bradbury examines in particular the later inclusion of explicitly fictional components, such as poetic compositions and short prose fiction, alongside the vulgarisation of erudite or inaccessible prose material, which was the primary function of the earlier Spanish miscellanies. He tackles the flexibility of the \u003ci\u003emiscelánea\u003c\/i\u003e as a genre by assessing the conceptual, thematic and formal aspects of such works, and exploring the interaction of these features. As a result, a genre model emerges, through which Golden Age works with fragmentary and non-continuous contents can better be interpreted and classified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan David Bradbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472429842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472429841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Jonathan David Bradbury","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088333320447,"sku":"9781472429841","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_769aa1e7-7c99-4231-9b01-7ddd20e247a5.jpg?v=1769104285","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-miscellany-of-the-spanish-jonathan-david-bradbury-9781472429841","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}