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

ISBN-13: 9780367601744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 215 str.

Alfonso Rey

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Alfonso Rey