Author : Marlen Bidwell-Steiner
Publisher : Foro Hispánico
ISBN 13 : 9789004506817
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)
Book Synopsis Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature by : Marlen Bidwell-Steiner
Download or read book Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature written by Marlen Bidwell-Steiner and published by Foro Hispánico. This book was released on 2022 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistic thought and discourse in 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 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"--