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Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected
yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and
discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern
Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery,
empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of
legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation
within existing forms (the novella, the byzantine romance,
theatrical drama) and created novel genres (most notably, the
picaresque). These essays show how casuistry, with its questioning
of example and precept, and meticulous concern with conscience and
the particularities of circumstance, is instrumental in cultivating
the subjectivity, rhetorical virtuosity and spirit of inquiry that
we have come to associate with the modern novel.
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the
acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With
Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes's Don Quijote and
Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of
early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and
dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction.
Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known
Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in
Cervantes's own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes's intense
fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions
in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the
Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance
humanism.
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