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«O ar desta pequena peça é muito mais antigo»: El romancero castellano (siglos XVI-XVIII) en la creación de la poesía popular portuguesa

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    Boto, Sandra Cristina de Jesus
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    Boto, Sandra Cristina de Jesus

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2022
    In:
    Boletín de Literatura Oral ISSN 2173-0695 Nº. 5, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: El Romancero ibérico, puente entre España y Portugal), pags. 68-87
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    The interest in the romancero began in Portugal in the 19th century with Almeida Garrett (1799-1854), as part of his Romantic nationalist agenda. His aim was to prove the existence of a Portuguese national poetry with medieval origins. However, considering the lack of Portuguese romancero sources during the previous centuries, Garrett was left with no choice but to draw on the Spanish romancero, which seems rather a contradiction since, at the time, the goal was to search for and affirm the substance of the Portuguese popular poetry against the Spanish one. This study examines this and other founding paradoxes of the Portuguese romancero. In particular, it seeks to clarify what solutions, departing from the Garrettian Romanticism, were outlined in order to create a Portuguese poetic history through the romancero. If, apparently, it would make sense to think that Garrett's nationalism rejected everything that would imply a Spanish origin and that his folkballads collection would have been formed by looking exclusively towards non-Iberian European models, the study of autographic materials (some of them unpublished) shows that, on the contrary, the broad domain of the Castilian language and Castilian bibliography from the 16th to 18th centuries became one of the most prolific methodological keys for the creation of the Portuguese popular poetic imaginary.


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