The Last Days of Humanism: A Reappraisal of Quevedo's Thought

Alfonso Rey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

215 Seiten

2016
Legenda (Verlag)
978-1-909662-81-0 (ISBN)

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This book analyzes the ideas which Francisco de Quevedo developed over the course of forty years within a body of literary work which, in terms of its themes, genres, traditions, and stylistic characteristics, was extremely diverse, covering the final years of humanism in which Quevedo.

Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy, broadly understood, lying at the core of his numerous and varied works. Quevedo lived in an age of transition, with th

Alfonso Rey

1. The Purpose of Literature 2. Neostoicism 3. Lucianesque Satire 4. Comicality 5. The Natural Environment 6. Statecraft 7. Nobility 8. War 9. Contemporary Chronicles 10. Considering Petrarch’s Canzoniere 11. Erotic Neoplatonism 12. Quevedo’s Readers

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.9.2016
Verlagsort	Leeds
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	638 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-909662-81-X / 190966281X
ISBN-13	978-1-909662-81-0 / 9781909662810
Zustand	Neuware