El personaje literario y su lengua en el siglo XVI. Edición de Consolación Baranda Leturio y Ana Vian Herrero. Madrid, Instituto Universitario Menéndez Pidal – Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2006, 350 págs.

Abstract

This article reviews the statements of different authors about the character and its syntactic and semantic function within a literary work. In the edition of Consolación Baranda Leturio and Ana Vian Herrero, which deals with the character of the 16th century, four important aspects stand out: his Hispanic origin, his multidisciplinary characteristics, his concentration on modalization and his choice of characters from the Spanish literature of the 16th century. XVI as corpus of work. It is a book made up of eleven studies on this subject, by different authors, of whose chapters this review makes a brief summary. All of them provide critical reflections on the creation of the literary character and everything that has to do with it.