Edited by Manuel Pérez-Saldanya and Rafael Roca Ricart
This collection, which transports readers from the age of manuscripts to the digital word, is a good demonstration not only of the current vitality of studies of Catalan language and literature, but also of the variety of interests and theoretical approaches and the diversity of origin of Catalan… read more
The context in which the manuscript of the medieval novel Curial e Güelfa was discovered in the second half of the 19th century, together with the fact that Manuel Milà i Fontanals did not encourage the dissemination of this finding, created some doubt about the circumstances surrounding the… read more
The diary titled Coses evengudes en la ciutat y regne de València, which was written by Monsignor Pere Joan Porcar between 1585 and 1629, is one of the literary testimonies of the Valencian Baroque that has aroused major interest among scholars. However, it has never been analyzed from a gender… read more
When Pompeu Fabra wrote his famous article in 1918, later entitled “La tasca dels escriptors valencians i balears” (The task of Valencian and Balearic writers), he was simply echoing two of the main issues which Valencian writers had been struggling with for about 40 years: the purification of… read more
During the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century Valencian intellectuals showed a remarkable interest in the major works of the 15th century among which we find Tirant lo Blanch, a novel which was not published in Catalan during the Modern Age until 1873, and therefore… read more
