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The 'Buscón' in Context
David Walters
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Volume: 88, Issue: 7-8, Pages: 39 - 55
Swansea University Author: David Walters
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/14753820.2011.620303
Abstract
Quevedo's Buscon has been the subject of a lively debate between those who view the novel as an essentially aesthetic work and those who claim that its main aim is moralistic in nature. A related polemic concerns the dating of the work. Lazaro Carreter argues for a date as early as 1604, wherea...
| Published in: | Bulletin of Spanish Studies |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3820 1478-3428 |
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Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa870 |
| Abstract: |
Quevedo's Buscon has been the subject of a lively debate between those who view the novel as an essentially aesthetic work and those who claim that its main aim is moralistic in nature. A related polemic concerns the dating of the work. Lazaro Carreter argues for a date as early as 1604, whereas A.A. Parker contends that it was written twenty years later. My article re-examines the evidence for these opposing standpoints, and posits an alternative understanding by reading the work in the context of Quevedo's life and work. My conclusion is that this is a novel whose main period of composition dates from around 1612, a key period in the writer's life, when it is likely that he underwent a personal, and probably a spiritual, crisis. |
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| Keywords: |
Quevedo. El Buscon. Spanish Golden Age literature. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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7-8 |
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39 |
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55 |