Anthony Close
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159988
- eISBN:
- 9780191673733
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159988.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter attempts to show how the comic mentality in Spain during 1600 unified the contrasting positions adopted by Miguel de Cervantes and his contemporaries. It suggests that the Spanish comic ...
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This chapter attempts to show how the comic mentality in Spain during 1600 unified the contrasting positions adopted by Miguel de Cervantes and his contemporaries. It suggests that the Spanish comic genre was able to overcome the crisis around 1600 because of Mateo Alemán's publication of the picaresque classic Guzman de Alfarache, the lifting of the ban on the comedia, and the socio-genetic and ideological pressures of the period. This chapter contends that the fiction written by Cervantes during this period was a reaction to existing social and cultural conditions.Less
This chapter attempts to show how the comic mentality in Spain during 1600 unified the contrasting positions adopted by Miguel de Cervantes and his contemporaries. It suggests that the Spanish comic genre was able to overcome the crisis around 1600 because of Mateo Alemán's publication of the picaresque classic Guzman de Alfarache, the lifting of the ban on the comedia, and the socio-genetic and ideological pressures of the period. This chapter contends that the fiction written by Cervantes during this period was a reaction to existing social and cultural conditions.
Anthony Close
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159988
- eISBN:
- 9780191673733
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159988.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the evolution of Spanish attitudes to comic fiction during the period from 1550 to 1600 in relation to the works of Miguel de Cervantes. It analyses the historical movements of ...
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This chapter examines the evolution of Spanish attitudes to comic fiction during the period from 1550 to 1600 in relation to the works of Miguel de Cervantes. It analyses the historical movements of taste, manners, and thought during this period. It contends that the change and evolution of Spanish comedy was influenced by socio-genetic factors that are expressions of a collective comic mentality or mind-set. These factors consist of shared, inter-subjective thoughts such as concepts, value, and intuitive assumptions.Less
This chapter examines the evolution of Spanish attitudes to comic fiction during the period from 1550 to 1600 in relation to the works of Miguel de Cervantes. It analyses the historical movements of taste, manners, and thought during this period. It contends that the change and evolution of Spanish comedy was influenced by socio-genetic factors that are expressions of a collective comic mentality or mind-set. These factors consist of shared, inter-subjective thoughts such as concepts, value, and intuitive assumptions.
Anthony Close
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159988
- eISBN:
- 9780191673733
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159988.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter examines the implications of the socio-genetic and ideological factors that brought about the evolution of Spanish attitudes towards comic fiction for three Spanish writings published ...
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This chapter examines the implications of the socio-genetic and ideological factors that brought about the evolution of Spanish attitudes towards comic fiction for three Spanish writings published between 1596 and 1624. These writings include Alonso Lopez Pinciano's Philosophia antigua poetica, Gaspar Lucas Hidalgo's Dialogos and Tirso de Molina's Cigarrales de Toledo. This chapter suggests that these works were significantly influenced by the new comic ethos in terms of style and content.Less
This chapter examines the implications of the socio-genetic and ideological factors that brought about the evolution of Spanish attitudes towards comic fiction for three Spanish writings published between 1596 and 1624. These writings include Alonso Lopez Pinciano's Philosophia antigua poetica, Gaspar Lucas Hidalgo's Dialogos and Tirso de Molina's Cigarrales de Toledo. This chapter suggests that these works were significantly influenced by the new comic ethos in terms of style and content.
