고려대학교

초록/요약

The Songbook of Juan Alfonso de Baena (c.1430) illustrates the fifteenth century Castilian typology of poetic genres. As Brian Dutton indicated in his important research (1982) on fifteenth century Spanish poetic genres, it is not easy to establish stable criteria for the classification of the various genres (i.e. dezir, pregunta, proçesso, etc.) because of the ambivalent functions of both rubric title and genre. In the Cancionero de Baena, there is a constant tendency to determine the poetic genre in question not on the basis of a literary work’s formal structure but of its compositional purpose. I believe that this type of genre classification came about due to the assimilation of various poetic styles into literary works that persisted from the early part of the rule of the House of Trastámara at least until the beginning of the 16th century. In this study, I attempt to analyze the newly-emerging typology of genres seen in the Cancionero de Baena, with particular focus on the two following questions: what were the main reasons that led to the need for this new form of genre classification and these new genre terms, and how can we explain the assimilation and intermingling of literary styles that we can observe in most of the poems compiled in this Castilian songbook?