Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain: A Platonist Critique and Some Picaresque Replies
(Part of the Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521121205
ISBN13:9780521121200
Release Date:October 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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