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

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

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.

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ISBN: 9780192862747
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Author: Richard Rabone
Publisher: Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 320 pages
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Genres: Ethics and moral philosophy
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers