Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

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 studen...

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Other Authors: Bidwell-Steiner, Marlen, author (author), Scham, Michael, 1969- author
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV [2022]
Edition:First edition
Series:Foro hispánico
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655518106719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.