The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella

A multilingual edition of a classic from the Crown of Aragon

Joan Rois de Corella

| (1435-1497)

Editors

Antonio Cortijo Ocaña

| University of California at Santa Barbara

Josep-Lluis Martos

| University of Alicante

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027240187 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00

e-Book –

ISBN 9789027266644 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00

Joan Roís de Corella is one of the most renowned authors of fifteenth-century Catalan literature. His Story of Leander and Hero uses a well-known Vergilian and Ovidian motif of unremitting love that turns into tragedy. Corella retells the story adding to it a great dose of suspense and pathos and recasts it in the fashion of sentimental prose, a genre famous at the time and a clear precedent of the great narrative genre to flourish during the Renaissance in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe: the novel.

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 12] 2016. v, 238 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.12

Table of Contents

The Motif of Hero and Leander Antonio Cortijo Ocaña	1–17
La istòria de Leànder y Hero de Joan Roís de Corella: Transmissió textual, anàlisi ecdòtica i edició crítica Josep-Lluis Martos	19–48
The Story of Leander and Hero, by Joan Roís de Corella: A Multilingual Edition of a Classic from the Crown of Aragon
La istòria de Leànder y Hero Editat per Josep-Lluis Martos	51–94
The Story of Leander and Hero Translated by Antonio Cortijo Ocaña	95–109
La Hestoria de Lleandro y Hero Translated by Pablo Suárez	111–127
L'Histoire de Léandre et Héro Translated by Jean-Marie Barberà	129–144
Die Geschichte von Leander und Hero Translated by Inga Baumann	145–161
Η ιστορία του Λέανδρου και της Ηρώς Ilias Oikonomopoulos	163–178
La storia di Ero e Leandro Annamaria Annicchiarico	179–192
História de Hero e Leandro Translated by Ricardo Silveira Da Costa	193–207
Жоан Роис де Коррельа Translated by Claudio Klotchkov	209–223
La historia de Leandro y Hero Translated by Vicent Martines	225–238

“Antonio Cortijo Ocaña and Josep Lluís Martos provide us with a great edition and study of one of the classics of Catalan letters: the Story of Leander and Hero by Joan Roís de Corella. The book sets the work within the context of 15th-c. sentimental prose and traces the successful development of this motif in Renaissance letters. It also includes a new critical edition of the Catalan text of the Istòria de Leànder y Hero and superb translations into contemporary English, Asturiano, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, and Russian.”

Ángel Gómez Moreno, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

“This book will help us understand the relevance of the story of Leander and Hero in Catalan and Iberian letters at the end of the Middle Ages and the early modern period. A detailed and magnificent new edition of the Catalan text is followed by an impressive array of translations into several European languages. In addition, two excellent prefatory studies by Antonio Cortijo and Josep Lluís Martos allow the reader to fully comprehend the importance of Joan Roís de Corella and his work.”

Óscar Perea Rodríguez, Lancaster University

Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Literature & Literary Studies

Romance literature & literary studies

BIC Subject: DSBB – Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

BISAC Subject: LCO008000 – LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2016020338 | Marc record