La Diana of Montemayor as Social and Religious Teaching [electronic resource] / Bruno M. Damiani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damiani, Bruno Mario.

Series:

Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 28.

Studies in Romance languages ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems in literature.

Literature and society--Spain--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

Didactic literature, Spanish--History and criticism.

Didactic literature, Spanish.

Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561--Religion.

Montemayor, Jorge de.

Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561--Political and social views.

Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561. Diana.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (125 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jorge de Montemayor's great pastoral novel La Diana (1559), one of the fountainheads of Spanish Renaissance literature, has often been regarded as a work written merely to amuse an effete courtly world. Bruno M. Damiani argues here that, far from being simply a ""pastoral dream,"" Diana has profound socio-historical and religious dimensions, and that Montemayor's intentions in it were largely moral and instructive.The timeless, idyllic nature which forms the essence of the pastoral is, in the case of Diana, inextricably bound up with the grace and sophistication of urban Spanish culture. In

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Social and Historical Realities; 2. Sermonizing and the Practice of Christian Virtues; 3. Journey to Felicia: La Diana as Pilgrimage; Conclusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6283-1

OCLC:

933516016