Historical legend and urban legend: Rivas in El cuento de un veterano
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https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2011.v73.i146.271Keywords:
Historical Romances, Legends, Romanticism, Urban Legend, Duque de Rivas, FolkloreAbstract
«El cuento de un veterano» has been usually reputed as an odd text compared to those of Romances Historicos as a whole, a work in which Rivas has shown a particular idea of Spanish National History. Within this context, we find in «El cuento de un veterano» a fictional composition, closer to popular stories about passion crimes and revenges, and therefore quite isoleted from the epic and peculiar inspiration of Romances Historicos. Some testimonies that appeared at the press contemporary with Rivas reveal the probable source of inspiration for this romance: a scary story based on the gothic tradition of the «Bleeding Nun» which, together with the reconstruction as an urban legend upon the «Monaca di Monza» incident, could be the motif inspiration for Rivas.
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