El “Libro de Alexandre” y sus influencias en el Mester de clereçía

539 Pages·2000·23.75 MB·Spanish

by  Yonghu Dai

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EL LIBRO DEALEXANDRE Y SUS INFLUENCIAS
EN EL MESTER DE CLERECÍA
A DISSERTATION
SUBMITTED ON THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2000
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
TULANE UNIVERSITY
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FORTHEDEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
BY
Dai, Yónghu
APPROVED:
Thomas Montgomery, Ph.D. J
Christopher Soufas, Jr., PR.D
Teresa Scott Soi
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EL LIBRO DE ALEXANDRE Y SUS INFLUENCIAS
EN EL MESTER DE CLERECÍA
AN ABSTRACT
SUBMITTED ON THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2000
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
TULANE UNIVERSITY
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FORTHEDEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
BY
Dai, Yonghu
AP PRO VED:
J
Thomas Montgomery, Ph.D.
Christopher Soufas, Jr., Ph.D
Teresa Scott Soufas, Ph.D.
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ABSTRACT
This dissertation deais with the influence of the thirteenth-century narrative poem
Libro de Alexandre in medieval Spanish literature and various types of imitation of it by
other medieval poets. The two texts chosen for comparison, analysis and interpretation
are the thirteenth-century Libro de Apolonio and the fourteenth-century Libro de buen
amor. The Spanish Alexander poem is believed to be the earliest work of the poetic
school “mester de clerecía;” and its relations with other medieval Spanish poems have
been treated by several scholars such as Ramón Menéndez Pidal, María Rosa Lida de
Malkiel, Dana Nelson, and Jorge García López. However, my scope, perspective and
interpretative strategy in the present study are different from those of most of the
previous scholars. Through a cióse scrutiny, a considerable number of new thematic,
linguistic and stylistic parallels are retrieved between the Alexandre and the Apolonio.
and between the Alexandre and the Buen amor. Theories of literary imitation,
intertextuality, literary influence, and plagiarísm are introduced to guide the interpretation
of these new data.
Chapter One examines the relations between the Alexandre and the Apolonio.
which are organized in thematic terms: moralization, wedding and festival celebration,
medieval erudition, and knowledge of music. Other parallels are included in a section
“paralelismos narrativos aislados”; more singular parallels which affect no more than one
or two verses are made into a appendix. What the author of the Apolonio leamed from
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the Alexandre is mainly the art of descriptio and the formulaic mechanism of the
“cuaderna vía” verse form; his basic approach is that of abbreviation. He may also have
relied on his poetic model for his knowledge and treatment of medieval music
performance. His imitation of the Alexander poem varíes from the reproductive mode to
transformative and heuristic absorption.
Chapter Two examines the relations between the Alexandre and the Buen amor.
The influence of the Alexander poem affects Juan Ruiz’s poem from single verse
borrowings to the configuration of one of the major sections of the Buen amor, sequences
covering the battles between Lady Lent and Sir Camal and the tent of Sir Love. Ruiz’s
modes of imitating his Alexander model are more complex than those seen in the
Apolonio. Judging from his hilarious treatments of the ideal personal portrait, the
Serranilla, the lamentation on Death, and the epitaph of Trotaconventos, it is probably
true that his imitation is by no means reverent or sincere, although we are not absolutely
sure that he parodies the Alexandre in all these treatments. Many remóte European,
Islamic or Jewish parallels or sources for Juan Ruiz’s poem have been claimed by
scholars, but no important and probable native Spanish antecedent has been found. This
study recognizes the Alexandre as the most important Spanish model for the Buen amor.
It, in tum, also affects the place of the Alexandre in the history of medieval Spanish
literature. Overall, through an examination of the influence of the Alexandre in the
Apolonio and the Buen amor, this study shows the great impact of the Spanish Alexander
poem in thirteenth-century and fourtenth-century Spanish literature and its proper place in
the history of the Spanish literature.
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DEDICATORIA
A mis padres, a mi esposa Wang Juping y a nuestro hijo Dai Guanyuan, alias Jesse,
sin cuyo apoyo, sacrificio y amor esta disertación no se habría podido acabar.
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RECONOCIMIENTOS
Quisiera expresar mis más profundos agradecimientos a mi maestro Dr. Thomas
Montgomery. Su infinita paciencia, su gran erudición y rigor intelectual, y su dirección
con mano segura han hecho posible que esta disertación llegue a feliz término. El Dr.
Montgomery ha dedicado gran cantidad de tiempo a la discusión, lectura, y corrección de
este trabajo en numerosas ocasiones; y sus sugerencias son siempre tan acertadas como
valisosas. “Mucho me as bien fecho, gra9¡r non tel sabría.” Mis más sinceros
agradecimientos también los dirijo a los dos profesores de mi comité, Dr. Chrístopher
Soufas y Dr. Teresa Soufas. Sus observaciones y aliento en lo que toca a mi disertación
estimo en todo lo que valen. Especialmente quisiera reconocer mi deuda para con el Dr.
Chrístopher Soufas, quien durante mi estancia en Tulane me ha estimulado y ayudado
constantemente. Su humanismo, sus obras y su estimación de mi potencial como
hispanista quedarán para siempre en mi memoria. También quiero dar mis gracias al Dr.
Nicasio Urbina, especialmente por su aliento a mis intereses daríanos, y a la Dra.
Kathleen Davis, cuya inspiradora ejemplarídad como maestra será un modelo de imitatión
para toda mi vida. Gracias a todos los profesores y compañeros del departamento, que
me han ayudado de una u otra manera, a los de la oficina de “interlibrary loan” de la
Biblioteca Howard-Tilton de Tulane por su constante asistencia, y a mis profesores,
compañeros y amigos de la Universidad de Beijing.
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