Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910558096403321
• Autore: Bidwell-Steiner Marlen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 90-04-50682-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (212 p.)
• Collana: Foro Hispánico
• Altri autori (Persone): SchamMichael
• Disciplina: 863/.309
• Soggetti: Literature: history & criticism; Literary criticism; Essays.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Casuistry and early modern Spanish literature: a neglected relationship / Marlen Bidwell-Steiner and Michael Scham -- Justice, blindfolded: law and crime in the Celestina / Marlen Bidwell-Steiner -- Artful rhetoric: the case of Lázaro de Tormes / Edward H. Friedman -- The intrusion of an apocryphal Guzmán as a (legal, moral and literary) 'Case' in Mateo Alemán's authentic second part / David Alvarez Roblin -- Theological casuistry and casuistical preposterousness: the fallacious cases of La pícara Justina / David Mañero Lozano -- The exploration of circumstance: casuistry and the emergence of the novela bizantina in Alonso Núñez de Reinoso's Historia de los amores de Clareo y Florisea, y de los trabajos de Ysea (1552) / Anita Traninger -- Comic casuistry and common sense: Sancho Panza's governorship / Michael Scham -- The lawyers' tales: legal casuistry and the Spanish Golden Age novella (Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano) / Mechthild Albert -- Opinion, idolatry, and indigenous consciousness: Bartolomé de las Casas' approach to human sacrifice / José Cárdenas Bunsen -- Staging penance: scenes of sacramental confession in early modern Spanish drama / Hilaire Kallendorf.
• Sommario/riassunto: Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early modern Spanish ; literature and thought.; Readership: Renaissance and Early Modern scholars and students interested in the rise of imaginative literature and its embeddedness in pre-modern Spanish society. It will also appeal to Religious Studies scholars.