Ángel Valbuena: la renovacion de la historiografía literaria española

Abstract

This paper questions in the first part the difficulties inherent to the construction of any Literary History. Also it studies especially the singularity of the Spanish case, derived from the somewhat late character of the Spanish Literary Histories of the 19th century and from the fact of having been posterior to some foreign, which set the models to follow. It also studies in the second part the contributions of the Historia de la literatura española by Á.Valbuena Prat, in its first edition, in 1932, so much for the construction of a different style, whose main features are analyzed, as for the attention paid to the contemporary authors, so that this work by Valbuena has been decisive in the configuration of the Spanish literary canon.