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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

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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...

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Published in: Bulletin of Spanish Studies
ISSN: 1475-3820 1478-3428
Published: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 2011
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