スペイン黄金時代の文学における中庸 Moderation and the Mean in the Literature of Spain's Golden Age : A Measure for Measure (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)

Rabone, Richard

Oxford University Press（2023/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780192862747
• DDC分類 860.9353

Full Description

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.

Contents

1: Aristotelian Wisdom? The Doctrine of the Mean à la mode
2: A Protean Moral? Aristotelian Metamorphoses in the Figures of Icarus, Daedalus, and Phaethon
3: Remedia amoris? Love and the Problem of Excess in the Poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega
4: Speculum prudentiae? Means of Kingship and the Functioning of Tragedy in Calderón's El médico de su honra
5: Trivial Pursuit? Extremes, Resolution, and the Search for Happiness in Gracián's El Criticón
6: A modo de conclusión: Imitation and the Future of the modus