Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain - A Platonist Critique and Some Picaresque Replies

Klappentext Dr Ife here examines the connection between the objections to Spanish Golden Age fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato. Zusammenfassung In the Spanish Golden Age! the new literary mode of vernacular prose fiction was deplored by many authorities for setting bad examples! undermining reality by deceiving with lies! and persuading in the face of rational disbelief. Dr Ife here examines the connection between such contemporary objections to fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - first premises; 2. The case against fiction; 3. Reading and rapture; 4. Breaking the illusion; 5. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: B. W. Ife
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521121200
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12120-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Iberian and Latin Am
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies