Project

Questioning the homogeneous morality of the comedias moralistas by J. Ruiz de Alarcón: a reconstruction of the moral heterogeneity of the Latin and Spanish hypotexts.

Code

01D38709

Duration

01 December 2009 → 30 November 2014

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Eugenia Houvenaghel

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies

Keywords

J.R. de Alarcón comedia moralista hypertextual analysis morality Spanish baroque theatre

Project description

This research project will question the moral homogeneity of Alarcón's comedies by contrasting this aspect with the heterogeneous morality of his carefully selected sources. Our main purpose consists in gaining a profound insight into the development and specificity of Alarcón's morality through a thorough examination of the Latin ans spanish hypotexts, based upon Genette's hypertextual model.