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SUMMARY:&quot\;What's in a Name? The Problems of Miscellaneity in the Span
 ish Golden Age&quot\; - Mr. Jonathan Bradbury  (St John’s College\, Univ
 ersity of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:The term 'miscelánea'\, as applied to works of heterogeneous 
 content published in the Spanish Golden Age\, is still only poorly underst
 ood\, functioning too often as a 'dustbin category' for hard-to-classify w
 orks. This critical uncertainty is compounded by the relative rarity of th
 e term in the Golden Age itself and by the fact that the five works entitl
 ed as 'misceláneas' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are radica
 lly different amongst themselves.\n\nIn this paper\, therefore\, I intend 
 to assess the suitability of 'miscellany' as a generic label. I hope to ac
 hieve a greater definition for the term\, both through an examination of t
 he differences between these five works and through an analysis of their p
 oints of convergence with respect to their conception of literary 'miscell
 aneity'. Finally\, I hope to demonstrate that a great deal of validity for
  the generic usage of 'miscelánea' can be derived from the previous Latin
  humanist tradition\, and that at least two of the authors of Spanish 'mis
 cellanies' explicitly entitled as such were aware of this prior literary c
 urrent and sought to interact with it.\n
LOCATION:Latimer  Room\, Clare College Old Court
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