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Casuistry and early modern ...
"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"--
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monografia Rebiun30756654 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun30756654 m o d cr ||||||||||| 220121s2022 ne ob 001 0 eng 2021062598 9789004506824 ebook) 9004506829 9789004506817 hardback ; acid-free paper) AU@ 000070523431 UPVA 998002044903706 UAM 991008139559004211 UPM 991006031886904212 UCAR 991008265478404213 CUNEF 991000371639408131 22573/ctv2gdjf78 JSTOR DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO LGG OCLCF OCLCO JSTOR YDX pcc e-sp--- LIT 000000 bisacsh 863/.309 23/eng/20220124 Casuistry and early modern Spanish literature edited by Marlen Bidwell-Steiner, Michael Scham 2203 Leiden Boston Brill [2022] Leiden Boston Leiden Boston Brill 1 online resource 1 online resource Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Foro hispánico 0925-8620 66 Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: Casuistry and early modern Spanish literature: a neglected relationship / Marlen Bidwell-Steiner and Michael Scham -- Justice, blindfolded: law and crime in the Celestina / Marlen Bidwell-Steiner -- Artful rhetoric: the case of Lázaro de Tormes / Edward H. Friedman -- The intrusion of an apocryphal Guzmán as a (legal, moral and literary) 'Case' in Mateo Alemán's authentic second part / David Alvarez Roblin -- Theological casuistry and casuistical preposterousness: the fallacious cases of La pícara Justina / David Mañero Lozano -- The exploration of circumstance: casuistry and the emergence of the novela bizantina in Alonso Núñez de Reinoso's Historia de los amores de Clareo y Florisea, y de los trabajos de Ysea (1552) / Anita Traninger -- Comic casuistry and common sense: Sancho Panza's governorship / Michael Scham -- The lawyers' tales: legal casuistry and the Spanish Golden Age novella (Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano) / Mechthild Albert -- Opinion, idolatry, and indigenous consciousness: Bartolomé de las Casas' approach to human sacrifice / José Cárdenas Bunsen -- Staging penance: scenes of sacramental confession in early modern Spanish drama / Hilaire Kallendorf "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"-- Provided by publisher Spanish fiction- Classical period, 1500-1700- History and criticism Casuistry in literature Casuistique dans la littérature LITERARY CRITICISM / General. Casuistry in literature. Spanish fiction- Classical period. Essay Electronic books essays. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays. Literary criticism. Literary criticism. Essays. Critiques littéraires. Essais. Bidwell-Steiner, Marlen editor Scham, Michael 1969-) editor Print version Casuistry and early modern Spanish literature Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004506817 (DLC) 2021062597