Rewritings of Gladys's historical narratives. Trafalgar.

Abstract

This paper, which enables us to draw conclusions about the cultural conditioning of literary reception from a diachronic, comparative standpoint, explores, on the one hand, the mechanisms of adaptation used by Galdós in his National Episode <em>Trafalgar</em> (1908) written for children and, on the other, the ones used throughout the subsequent editions of Trafalgar to the present day. In this way, this article intends to know about the mechanisms of adaptation themselves and compare the ones used by the author in 1908 and those used by other authors –readers of Galdós after all– in later periods. Besides, the present analysis shows to what extent the content of a text is altered by the changes of formal elements of the narrative discourse.