Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age
Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age
A Measure for Measure
Contenu
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.
Informations bibliographiques
juin 2023, Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs, Anglais
Oxford Academic
978-0-19-286274-7