Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs

Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age

A Measure for Measure

Richard Rabone

Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age

Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs: Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age

A sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean in early modern Spanish literature. Studying works of three canonical authors—Garcilaso, Calderón, Gracián—it argues that the ethical credo of moderation was an important part of the classical inheritance on which Golden Age authors frequently drew.

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This book presents the first sustained analysis of the reception of the Aristotelian golden mean and related ideas of moderation in the literature and thought of early modern Spain (1500-1700). It explores the Golden-Age understanding of Aristotle's doctrine as a prolegomenon to literary study, and its allegorical reformulation in the myths of Icarus and Phaethon, before arguing that scrutiny of how the mean and the related concept of ethical moderation are treated
by early modern authors represents a vital but underexploited tool for literary analysis. Particular attention is paid to detailed case studies of works by three canonical authors—Garcilaso, Calderón, Gracián—demonstrating the value of the mean as a locus of critical attention, as analysis of its
presentation allows several long-standing disputes in the scholarship on these authors to be newly resolved.

ISBN: 9780192862747
Pagina's: 320
Verschijnt: 13-06-2023
Serie: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
NUR: 320

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Hardback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: OUP Oxford

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