Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes broadens our understanding of this transformative period. Susan Byrne examines a little-known legal treatise published in 1600 that defended artists’ rights and served as a rallying cry for writers in Madrid. The book investigates early efforts to define creative writing as "good," "human," or "polished" letters, foreshadowing the mid-seventeenth-century French concept of belles lettres. Byrne closely analyses Cervantes’s exploration of key aesthetic themes, including sensory experience, the interplay between sentiment and reason, the role of imagination in art, and the complex nature of truth and beauty.Ultimately, the book illuminates how Cervantes gradually reconceptualized art and its truths as fully human expressions throughout his lifetime, both formally and substantively.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-14
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt1 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Iberic
Antal sidor226
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487561451

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“Penetrating and lucid, The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes looks back to Antiquity but also forward to an eighteenth-century long regarded as the genesis of modern aesthetics. Byrne’s intricate grasp on the most hermetic of premodern debates on poetics, sensory perception, and beauty allows her to boldly revise enduring scholarly assumptions, placing Cervantes at the vanguard of an early modern movement to conceptualize and expand the boundaries of the arts.”