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E-BORESU nº 6

The numerous relationships of the flood that submerged the city of Salamanca on January 26, 1626 (Saint Polycarp's day) provide a remarkable case study to investigate the correspondence between the publishing genre of the relationships and their various textual typologies. The typical sedimentation of the informative materials of the relationships means that the different editions all refer to a single shared story, spread from mouth to ear, through official and private communications, handwritten or printed. The objective of this work is, first, to find out how heterogeneous rhetorical, stylistic and narrative structures represent this same shared story; and, secondly, to expose how said structures interpret the informative function of relationships in different ways, as they are linked to other news or literary genres.