This work explores Conceptismo, from its literary origins to its rhetorical, ethical, and political dimensions. Particular attention is given to the treatises of Emanuele Tesauro and Baltasar Gracián. Finally, the causes of the decline of this aesthetic of paradox are analyzed.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-15817-2
EAN:9782406158172
ISSN: 2108-5471
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-710-2
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-28-2007
Language: French
Keyword: Epigram, lyrical poetry in Tuscan, Hermeticism, Molinism, Greco-Latin literature, raison d’État, Luis de Góngora, Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature
