Literature and Folklore in the Cid’s Post Mortem Legends

This article focuses on the critical analysis of posthumous legends of el Cid from a multidisciplinary heuristic approach by combining the study of its ancestral folkloric traces with the support of comparatistics in order to appreciate the literary and anthropological worth of these stories. A trip...

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Main Author: Alfonso Boix Jovaní
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 2020-06-01
Series:Medievalia
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Online Access:https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/medievalia/index.php/mv/article/view/382
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Summary:This article focuses on the critical analysis of posthumous legends of el Cid from a multidisciplinary heuristic approach by combining the study of its ancestral folkloric traces with the support of comparatistics in order to appreciate the literary and anthropological worth of these stories. A trip to the Great Beyond which will reach the end of the 19th century, when a legend with a clear Becquerian influence appeared, the analysis of which will allow us tounderstand this article as a research on medieval literature but, also, to frame it within the current trends of neomedievalism by analysing the transmission of medieval topoi and their current expression.
ISSN:2448-8232