Why the Title Celestina? Why Not Melibea?. Snow, J. T. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 0(0):1–18, April, 2018. ![Why the Title Celestina? Why Not Melibea? [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex The importance and influence of a name is discussed, in the case of the title of a literary work, for its impact on the reception the work meets with, and the meanings it holds for readers. The history of the successive titles its publishers have given to the Spanish classic, Comedia/Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (1499 and after), is the frame for a fresh reading of the role of Melibea, the female protagonist in the work—which has been titled since the nineteenth century almost unanimously after the name of the bawd, Celestina. The article makes a defence for either a reversion to the original title or to, possibly, simply Melibea. In this reading, Melibea emerges as the personage whose metamorphoses are seen, from the first scene of the work to its conclusion, as the most important in all stages of the action, making her—and not Celestina—the character the work’s authors designed to be its centrepiece.
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abstract = {The importance and influence of a name is discussed, in the case of the title of a literary work, for its impact on the reception the work meets with, and the meanings it holds for readers. The history of the successive titles its publishers have given to the Spanish classic, Comedia/Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (1499 and after), is the frame for a fresh reading of the role of Melibea, the female protagonist in the work—which has been titled since the nineteenth century almost unanimously after the name of the bawd, Celestina. The article makes a defence for either a reversion to the original title or to, possibly, simply Melibea. In this reading, Melibea emerges as the personage whose metamorphoses are seen, from the first scene of the work to its conclusion, as the most important in all stages of the action, making her—and not Celestina—the character the work’s authors designed to be its centrepiece.},
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journal = {Bulletin of Spanish Studies},
author = {Snow, Joseph T.},
month = apr,
year = {2018},
keywords = {Celestina, Comedia/Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, Melibea, authorship, medieval Spanish literature, reception, significance of titles},
pages = {1--18}
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