Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early ...modern Spanish literature and thought.
Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early ...modern Spanish literature and thought.; Readership: Renaissance and Early Modern scholars and students interested in the rise of imaginative literature and its embeddedness in pre-modern Spanish society. It will also appeal to Religious Studies scholars.
Abstract
For Miguel de Cervantes and Mateo Alemán, honour culture generates an excessively volatile interplay of shame and anger. More often than justice, the results are deception, vindictiveness ...and disproportionate violence. Alemán depicts such agonistic passions as deeply embedded in human nature, and attempts to channel them to positive effect via rational reflection, creating the conditions for empathy and even compassion. Cervantes, also recognizing the common inclination to anger, revenge and duplicity, proposes the affective bonds of friendship as an antidote to the divisive operations of honour. The medieval Cantar de mío Cid, which suggests a transition from personal, zealous vengeance towards collective, rational justice, is an important background work for both early modern authors.
From scenes depicting specific games and recreations, to discussions about leisure
and work more generally, to a rich figurative language borrowing from ludic concepts and
lexicon, Guzmán de ...Alfarache is a major artefact of the period’s preoccupations with the role
of play in society. The article considers how Alemán’s representation of play is fundamental
to his integrated theological and socio-economic vision.
Con representaciones de juegos y recreos particulares, discusiones sobre el ocio
y el negocio, y un rico lenguaje figurativo que toma del léxico y conceptos lúdicos, Guzmán
de Alfarache ofrece un testimonio ilustrativo de las preocupaciones contemporáneas acerca
del papel del juego en la sociedad. El artículo considera como la representación alemaniana
del juego forma base de su integrada visión teológica y socio-económica
Although casuistry in Cervantes has been discussed primarily in relation to his theatrical works,¹ recent studies of legal and political discourse in Don Quijote² bring casuistry to the fore in ...Cervantes’ engagement with contemporary ideas on statecraft and jurisprudence. While examining the interrelated development of legal and casuistical procedure in early modern Spain, Roberto González Echevarría notes how Don Quijote’s questioning of the galeotes (DQ I.22) dramatizes a new aesthetic concerned with circumstances: “This casuistry makes way for the concreteness of the new literature, focused on individuals, specific events, objects, and settings, spurning not just received literary but also philosophical
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