出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:This article recovers and analyses the earliest appearances of the term “novel” as the name for a new narrative model. In the fifteenth century, the circulation of manuscripts of Boccaccio’s The Decameron , and the reading that many scholars were making of it, gave a crucial boost to the understanding of the term, enabling the concept (hitherto used chiefly as a synonym for “novelty”) to undergo a significant semantic shift. The hesitation with which the word “novel” began to be used (related to other genres such as the short story or the example) lasted well into the sixteenth century, when authors still did not distinguish precisely between the different narrative categories.
关键词:novel;tale;neologism;Decamerón;Boccaccio;Marqués de Santillana;Rodríguez del Padrón;Cañizares;Nebrija;Palencia;15th-16th centuries;novela;cuento;neologismo;Decamerón;Boccaccio;Marqués de Santillana;Rodríguez del Padrón;Cañizares;Nebrija;Palencia;siglos XV-XVI