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

by B. Ife and B.W. Ife

Book Overview

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 the objections posed to this fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato. This book shows how the aims and results of 'picaresque' novel writing in fact counter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521121205
• ISBN13: 9780521121200
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"