El romancero tradicional constituye una rama privilegiada de la balada occidental porque, mientra... more El romancero tradicional constituye una rama privilegiada de la balada occidental porque, mientras ésta se halla prácticamente extinguida, el romancero ha logrado sobrevivir hasta el día de hoy en la memoria colectiva de los pueblos iberorrománicos. Pese a las dificultades derivadas de los cambios socio-culturales operados en los últimos años, los poemas romancísticos. narrativos por excelencia, han continuado transmitiéndose oralmente, de generación en generación. Entre las diversas ramas que a su vez se integran en el romancero se encuentra la tradición americana que, aunque deficientemente explorada, ofrece ya un corpus de temas y versiones (o actualizaciones de cada romance) de excepcional interés. La atención que los diversos historiadores de la literatura hispanoamericana han prestado al romancero tradicional es de muy diverso grado: unos, como Raimundo Lazo'. Enrique Anderson Imhert 2 o Jean Franco3. eluden toda referencia al romancero importado de la metrópoli. Otros, aunque asumen que las versiones romancísticas llegadas de la Península se hallan incorporadas a la cultura autóctona y deben ser consideradas como pertenecientes al acervo literario del Nuevo Continente, discrepan a la hora de encasillar el género en el lugar más adecuado, excluyéndolo sistemáticamente de las etapas moderna y contemporánea. Entre estos tU-1. Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. 2 vols. 1, El período colonial (¡492-!780). 11, El
Os romances tradicionais de Galicia. Catalogo exemplificado dos seus temas
Hispanic Review, 2001
Os romances tradicionais de Galicia. Catalogo exemplificado dos seas temas. By Ana Valenciano, wi... more Os romances tradicionais de Galicia. Catalogo exemplificado dos seas temas. By Ana Valenciano, with the collaboration of Jose Luis Forneiro, Concha Enriquez de Salamanca, and Suzanne Petersen. Madrid-Santiago de Compostela: Publications do Centro de Investigations Linguisticas e Literarias Ramon Pineiro-Fundacion Ramon Menendez Pidal, 1998. 16 plates, xix+574 pages. Modern pan-Hispanic balladry, which may be divided into five or six major geographic and linguistic subtraditions--Castile, Galicia, Catalonia, Portugal and Brazil, the Sephardim, and Spanish America--has been classified only in part. Samuel G. Armistead et al., El Romancero judeo-espanol en el Archivo Menendez Pidal (1978), may also be regarded as a catalog of Judeo-Spanish balladry, for it includes all but eleven of the text-types found among the Sephardim. My own O Romanceiro Portugues e Brasileiro (1997), which Samuel G. Armistead enriched with a pan-European correlation and Israel J. Katz with a musical selection, covers the Luso-Brazilian tradition. So far, Castile counts with two partial catalogs: Juan Busto Cortina's Catalogo-indice de romances asturianos (1989) and Diego Catalan et al., Romancero General de Leon (1991). Two catalogs offer a pan-Hispanic perspective, but they are limited in scope: The ambitious CGR: CataLogo general del Romancero (1982-88), compiled by Diego Catalan et al., classifies and analyzes 82 "Romances de contexto historico nacional"; as its title indicates, Flor Salazar's El Romancero vulgar y nuevo (1999) focuses on "romances vulgares." Consequently, Ana Valenciano has filled an important gap by classifying the Galician tradition. The book opens the series "Romanceiro Xeral de Galicia," directed by Diego Catalan, who contributed a Preface (ix-xix). In her informative, extensive Introduction (5-167), Valenciano discusses the formation of the corpus that served as basis for her classification, methods of field work, the selection of samples, her organization of the catalog, and editorial criteria. The corpus comes to 6,500 ballads, including 500 versions brought together by Ramon Menendez Pidal and his collaborators, 4,000 versions recorded during several collective field expeditions (1977-83) directed by Diego Catalan, and 2,000 ballads that were either already published or exist in private archives. Most of the poems in the first two collections are still unedited. Jesus Antonio Cid describes the third group in his forthcoming Bibliografia del Romancero gallego. Valenciano determined that this corpus comprises 168 text-types, two of which are placed in an Appendix (455-57); an additional four text-types appear in an addendum (561-66), bringing the total to 172. The catalog itself is organized according to five broad categories: 1) Romanceiro historico, cabaleiresco, lirico e trobadoresco (nos. …
Esta comunicación resume los criterios formalizados en su día por Don Ramón Menéndez Pidal, y por... more Esta comunicación resume los criterios formalizados en su día por Don Ramón Menéndez Pidal, y por otros estudiosos posteriores afines a su escuela, para la delimitación genérica del Romancero Tradicional, tanto de la etapa antigua (ss. XV a XVII) como de la tradición oral moderna. Partiendo de esos principios, se intenta rastrear algunos elementos presentes en los textos documentados en el pasado que pudieron constituir la semilla del llamado estilo tradicional y que reencontramos en las versiones recogidas en el periodo más reciente (ss. XIX-XXI). Para ejemplificar este proceso se utilizan algunos romances de los llamados noticieros que constituirán uno de los próximos volúmenes de la serie Romancero tradicional de las lenguas hispánicas iniciada en vida de Menéndez Pidal.
Las obras conservadas en forma manuscrita o impresa de aquellos auto-res que se vienen incluyendo... more Las obras conservadas en forma manuscrita o impresa de aquellos auto-res que se vienen incluyendo en la llamada literatura hispanoamericana virreinal o colonial han sido analizadas con frecuencia desde dos tendencias criticas que, si bien pueden considerarse complementarias, obedecen a supuestos o puntos de vista condicionados por espacios culturales muy leja-nos entre sí. De un lado, la mirada de los estudiosos que se han interesado prioritaria-mente en la búsqueda de los rasgos literarios importados de la Península para señalar su influencia en los repertorios prosísticos y poéticos americanos lo que, en ocasiones, determina la «denominación de origen» de los textos al remitirnos al ámbito cultural de los conquistadores y a las etapas establecidas para las obras de autores peninsulares fechadas con anterioridad a la conse-cución de la Emancipación. En el lado opuesto se han instalado los especia-listas con tendencia a destacar los rasgos diferenciadores que apuntan a la especifici...
Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel an... more Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel and complementary activities: fi rst, obtaining material directly from the context in which it is produced and, second, processing the data later outside of its context. The ways in which the fi eldwork should be organized as well as where and how it is to be carried out depend upon the objective that is being pursued. Oral literary genres differ in the ways they are transmitted, but we can fi nd them together in the same cultural environment. Narrations in prose, like stories or legends, live together in the collective memory along with proverbs, riddles and sayings, and poetic forms, among which are included canciones (songs), coplas (couplets), and romances (ballads). Our primary objective in going out on collecting expeditions is to obtain examples of the traditional romancero. It is not a question of storing literary fossils for the mere desire of increasing the number of texts in existence in present-day collections, but rather of trying to gather, in so far as it is possible, new data which will help to illustrate and clarify the various questions that have arisen in this literary fi eld. Some of the conditions that in principle are required in order to undertake the task of collecting romances do not differ substantially from those that are necessary for obtaining other categories of oral texts: a certain amount of previous knowledge in order to keep the data from turning into a mosaic of confused information, a permanent way to store and assemble interesting information when the opportunity arises, and an adequate knowledge of the language of the interlocutors (Lacoste 1981:141),
Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel an... more Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel and complementary activities: fi rst, obtaining material directly from the context in which it is produced and, second, processing the data later outside of its context. The ways in which the fi eldwork should be organized as well as where and how it is to be carried out depend upon the objective that is being pursued. Oral literary genres differ in the ways they are transmitted, but we can fi nd them together in the same cultural environment. Narrations in prose, like stories or legends, live together in the collective memory along with proverbs, riddles and sayings, and poetic forms, among which are included canciones (songs), coplas (couplets), and romances (ballads). Our primary objective in going out on collecting expeditions is to obtain examples of the traditional romancero. It is not a question of storing literary fossils for the mere desire of increasing the number of texts in existence in present-day collections, but rather of trying to gather, in so far as it is possible, new data which will help to illustrate and clarify the various questions that have arisen in this literary fi eld. Some of the conditions that in principle are required in order to undertake the task of collecting romances do not differ substantially from those that are necessary for obtaining other categories of oral texts: a certain amount of previous knowledge in order to keep the data from turning into a mosaic of confused information, a permanent way to store and assemble interesting information when the opportunity arises, and an adequate knowledge of the language of the interlocutors (Lacoste 1981:141),
Esta antologia es una completa muestra de la literatura heroica medieval castellana y ofrece la s... more Esta antologia es una completa muestra de la literatura heroica medieval castellana y ofrece la singularidad de editar, junto a textos ya clasicos, una decena de textos ineditos procedentes de versiones manuscritas del Archivo Menendez Pidal.
Towards the Elaboration of the General Descriptive Catalogue of the Pan-Hispanic Romancero
Información del artículo Towards the Elaboration of the General Descriptive Catalogue of the Pan-... more Información del artículo Towards the Elaboration of the General Descriptive Catalogue of the Pan-Hispanic Romancero.
El romancero tradicional constituye una rama privilegiada de la balada occidental porque, mientra... more El romancero tradicional constituye una rama privilegiada de la balada occidental porque, mientras ésta se halla prácticamente extinguida, el romancero ha logrado sobrevivir hasta el día de hoy en la memoria colectiva de los pueblos iberorrománicos. Pese a las dificultades derivadas de los cambios socio-culturales operados en los últimos años, los poemas romancísticos. narrativos por excelencia, han continuado transmitiéndose oralmente, de generación en generación. Entre las diversas ramas que a su vez se integran en el romancero se encuentra la tradición americana que, aunque deficientemente explorada, ofrece ya un corpus de temas y versiones (o actualizaciones de cada romance) de excepcional interés. La atención que los diversos historiadores de la literatura hispanoamericana han prestado al romancero tradicional es de muy diverso grado: unos, como Raimundo Lazo'. Enrique Anderson Imhert 2 o Jean Franco3. eluden toda referencia al romancero importado de la metrópoli. Otros, aunque asumen que las versiones romancísticas llegadas de la Península se hallan incorporadas a la cultura autóctona y deben ser consideradas como pertenecientes al acervo literario del Nuevo Continente, discrepan a la hora de encasillar el género en el lugar más adecuado, excluyéndolo sistemáticamente de las etapas moderna y contemporánea. Entre estos tU-1. Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. 2 vols. 1, El período colonial (¡492-!780). 11, El
Os romances tradicionais de Galicia. Catalogo exemplificado dos seus temas
Hispanic Review, 2001
Os romances tradicionais de Galicia. Catalogo exemplificado dos seas temas. By Ana Valenciano, wi... more Os romances tradicionais de Galicia. Catalogo exemplificado dos seas temas. By Ana Valenciano, with the collaboration of Jose Luis Forneiro, Concha Enriquez de Salamanca, and Suzanne Petersen. Madrid-Santiago de Compostela: Publications do Centro de Investigations Linguisticas e Literarias Ramon Pineiro-Fundacion Ramon Menendez Pidal, 1998. 16 plates, xix+574 pages. Modern pan-Hispanic balladry, which may be divided into five or six major geographic and linguistic subtraditions--Castile, Galicia, Catalonia, Portugal and Brazil, the Sephardim, and Spanish America--has been classified only in part. Samuel G. Armistead et al., El Romancero judeo-espanol en el Archivo Menendez Pidal (1978), may also be regarded as a catalog of Judeo-Spanish balladry, for it includes all but eleven of the text-types found among the Sephardim. My own O Romanceiro Portugues e Brasileiro (1997), which Samuel G. Armistead enriched with a pan-European correlation and Israel J. Katz with a musical selection, covers the Luso-Brazilian tradition. So far, Castile counts with two partial catalogs: Juan Busto Cortina's Catalogo-indice de romances asturianos (1989) and Diego Catalan et al., Romancero General de Leon (1991). Two catalogs offer a pan-Hispanic perspective, but they are limited in scope: The ambitious CGR: CataLogo general del Romancero (1982-88), compiled by Diego Catalan et al., classifies and analyzes 82 "Romances de contexto historico nacional"; as its title indicates, Flor Salazar's El Romancero vulgar y nuevo (1999) focuses on "romances vulgares." Consequently, Ana Valenciano has filled an important gap by classifying the Galician tradition. The book opens the series "Romanceiro Xeral de Galicia," directed by Diego Catalan, who contributed a Preface (ix-xix). In her informative, extensive Introduction (5-167), Valenciano discusses the formation of the corpus that served as basis for her classification, methods of field work, the selection of samples, her organization of the catalog, and editorial criteria. The corpus comes to 6,500 ballads, including 500 versions brought together by Ramon Menendez Pidal and his collaborators, 4,000 versions recorded during several collective field expeditions (1977-83) directed by Diego Catalan, and 2,000 ballads that were either already published or exist in private archives. Most of the poems in the first two collections are still unedited. Jesus Antonio Cid describes the third group in his forthcoming Bibliografia del Romancero gallego. Valenciano determined that this corpus comprises 168 text-types, two of which are placed in an Appendix (455-57); an additional four text-types appear in an addendum (561-66), bringing the total to 172. The catalog itself is organized according to five broad categories: 1) Romanceiro historico, cabaleiresco, lirico e trobadoresco (nos. …
Esta comunicación resume los criterios formalizados en su día por Don Ramón Menéndez Pidal, y por... more Esta comunicación resume los criterios formalizados en su día por Don Ramón Menéndez Pidal, y por otros estudiosos posteriores afines a su escuela, para la delimitación genérica del Romancero Tradicional, tanto de la etapa antigua (ss. XV a XVII) como de la tradición oral moderna. Partiendo de esos principios, se intenta rastrear algunos elementos presentes en los textos documentados en el pasado que pudieron constituir la semilla del llamado estilo tradicional y que reencontramos en las versiones recogidas en el periodo más reciente (ss. XIX-XXI). Para ejemplificar este proceso se utilizan algunos romances de los llamados noticieros que constituirán uno de los próximos volúmenes de la serie Romancero tradicional de las lenguas hispánicas iniciada en vida de Menéndez Pidal.
Las obras conservadas en forma manuscrita o impresa de aquellos auto-res que se vienen incluyendo... more Las obras conservadas en forma manuscrita o impresa de aquellos auto-res que se vienen incluyendo en la llamada literatura hispanoamericana virreinal o colonial han sido analizadas con frecuencia desde dos tendencias criticas que, si bien pueden considerarse complementarias, obedecen a supuestos o puntos de vista condicionados por espacios culturales muy leja-nos entre sí. De un lado, la mirada de los estudiosos que se han interesado prioritaria-mente en la búsqueda de los rasgos literarios importados de la Península para señalar su influencia en los repertorios prosísticos y poéticos americanos lo que, en ocasiones, determina la «denominación de origen» de los textos al remitirnos al ámbito cultural de los conquistadores y a las etapas establecidas para las obras de autores peninsulares fechadas con anterioridad a la conse-cución de la Emancipación. En el lado opuesto se han instalado los especia-listas con tendencia a destacar los rasgos diferenciadores que apuntan a la especifici...
Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel an... more Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel and complementary activities: fi rst, obtaining material directly from the context in which it is produced and, second, processing the data later outside of its context. The ways in which the fi eldwork should be organized as well as where and how it is to be carried out depend upon the objective that is being pursued. Oral literary genres differ in the ways they are transmitted, but we can fi nd them together in the same cultural environment. Narrations in prose, like stories or legends, live together in the collective memory along with proverbs, riddles and sayings, and poetic forms, among which are included canciones (songs), coplas (couplets), and romances (ballads). Our primary objective in going out on collecting expeditions is to obtain examples of the traditional romancero. It is not a question of storing literary fossils for the mere desire of increasing the number of texts in existence in present-day collections, but rather of trying to gather, in so far as it is possible, new data which will help to illustrate and clarify the various questions that have arisen in this literary fi eld. Some of the conditions that in principle are required in order to undertake the task of collecting romances do not differ substantially from those that are necessary for obtaining other categories of oral texts: a certain amount of previous knowledge in order to keep the data from turning into a mosaic of confused information, a permanent way to store and assemble interesting information when the opportunity arises, and an adequate knowledge of the language of the interlocutors (Lacoste 1981:141),
Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel an... more Research work in the humanities and the social sciences at times demands two kinds of parallel and complementary activities: fi rst, obtaining material directly from the context in which it is produced and, second, processing the data later outside of its context. The ways in which the fi eldwork should be organized as well as where and how it is to be carried out depend upon the objective that is being pursued. Oral literary genres differ in the ways they are transmitted, but we can fi nd them together in the same cultural environment. Narrations in prose, like stories or legends, live together in the collective memory along with proverbs, riddles and sayings, and poetic forms, among which are included canciones (songs), coplas (couplets), and romances (ballads). Our primary objective in going out on collecting expeditions is to obtain examples of the traditional romancero. It is not a question of storing literary fossils for the mere desire of increasing the number of texts in existence in present-day collections, but rather of trying to gather, in so far as it is possible, new data which will help to illustrate and clarify the various questions that have arisen in this literary fi eld. Some of the conditions that in principle are required in order to undertake the task of collecting romances do not differ substantially from those that are necessary for obtaining other categories of oral texts: a certain amount of previous knowledge in order to keep the data from turning into a mosaic of confused information, a permanent way to store and assemble interesting information when the opportunity arises, and an adequate knowledge of the language of the interlocutors (Lacoste 1981:141),
Esta antologia es una completa muestra de la literatura heroica medieval castellana y ofrece la s... more Esta antologia es una completa muestra de la literatura heroica medieval castellana y ofrece la singularidad de editar, junto a textos ya clasicos, una decena de textos ineditos procedentes de versiones manuscritas del Archivo Menendez Pidal.
Towards the Elaboration of the General Descriptive Catalogue of the Pan-Hispanic Romancero
Información del artículo Towards the Elaboration of the General Descriptive Catalogue of the Pan-... more Información del artículo Towards the Elaboration of the General Descriptive Catalogue of the Pan-Hispanic Romancero.
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