This study of the blindman's ballads (romances de ciego) of the eighteenth century introduces the reader to one of the most important, and most popular, mass culture genres produced in Spain. Madeline Sutherland explains how these ballads were produced and distributed, tracing the texts from author, to printer, to peddlar, to reader. She describes the blindman's ballad as a literary genre, showing its major defining characteristics. Finally, she discusses the influence of other genres - earlier printed ballads, as well as the novels, comedias, and autos sacramentales of the seventeenth century - on the development of the blindman's ballad, and shows the complex relationship that existed between high culture and mass culture in eighteenth-century Spain.
| ISBN: | 9780820413389 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 1991 |
| Author: | Madeline Sutherland |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 271 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies |
This study of the blindman's ballads (romances de ciego) of the eighteenth century introduces the reader to one of the most important, and most popular, mass culture genres produced in Spain. Madeline Sutherland explains how these ballads were produced and distributed, tracing the texts from author, to printer, to peddlar, to reader. She describes the blindman's ballad as a literary genre, showing its major defining characteristics. Finally, she discusses the influence of other genres - earlier printed ballads, as well as the novels, comedias, and autos sacramentales of the seventeenth century - on the development of the blindman's ballad, and shows the complex relationship that existed between high culture and mass culture in eighteenth-century Spain.
Mass Culture in the Age of Enlightenment features in the following genres: Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Mass Culture in the Age of Enlightenment is available in Hardback
Mass Culture in the Age of Enlightenment was written by Madeline Sutherland and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Mass Culture in the Age of Enlightenment has 271 pages
Yes it is part of American University Studies. series