Description:
In ‘The Politics of Editing’, works from the Spanish canon as well as marginalized Hispanic writings are considered within the political context of textual editing. Works such as the ‘Poem of the Cid’, ‘El conde Lucanor’, and the Spanish ‘comedia’, as well as texts written by nineteenth-century Spanish women and the multivocal twentieth-century Latin American women poets, are examined, ultimately shattering the convention, cherished in literary theory, that opposes ‘exegesis’(the sacred, selfless, and self-effacing rendition that coincides with the identity of the text) to ‘interpretation (the subjectivity that mobilizes and motivates the text).


CONTENTS:

Introduction: Textual Editing, the Writing of Literature, and Literary History, Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens......ix

Chapter 1. Poema de Mio Cid, Colin Smith.......1

Chapter 2. Critical Editions and Literary History: The Case of Don Juan Manuel, Reinaldo Ayerbe-Chaux......22

Chapter 3. A National Classic: The Case of Garcilaso’s Poetry, Elias L. Rivers......39

Chapter 4. The Art of Edition as the Techné of Mediation: Garcilaso’s Poetry as Masterplot, Iris M. Zavala......52

Chapter 5. The Politics of Editions: The Case of Lazarillo de Tormes, Joseph V. Ricapito......74

Chapter 6. Editing Theater: A Strategy for Reading, an Essay about Dramaturyg, Evangelina Rodriguez......95

Chapter 7. Editing Problems of the Romancero: The Romantic Tradition, Pere Ferré......110

Chapter 8. Toward a Feminist Textual Criticism: Thoughts on Editing the Work of Coronado and Avellaneda, Susan Kirkpatric......125

Chapter 9. Framing Contexts, Gendered Evaluations, and the Anthological Subject, Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz......139

Afterword: The Editor’s Eros, Tomo Conley......156

Contributors......171

Index......175