In the Spanish Golden Age, the new literary mode of vernacular
prose fiction was deplored by many authorities for setting bad
examples, undermining reality by deceiving with lies, and
persuading in the face of rational disbelief. Dr Ife here examines
the connection between the objections posed to this fiction and
those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato. This book shows
how the aims and results of 'picaresque' novel writing in fact
counter such objections. In a study of three sixteenth- and early
seventeenth-century Spanish novels Dr Ife demonstrates that the
authors consciously exploited their readers' response to a
narrative in order to bring them to a clearer understanding of
their own experience. In this way the very process of
representation deplored by the Platonist critics may be regarded as
having a moral validity of its own. Additional English translations
are provided of all the key extracts studied.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies |
Release date: |
September 2009 |
First published: |
August 2009 |
Authors: |
B.W. Ife
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-12120-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Literature: history & criticism >
Literary studies >
General
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LSN: |
0-521-12120-5 |
Barcode: |
9780521121200 |
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