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In the Spanish Golden Age, the new literary mode of vernacular prose fiction was deplored by many authorities for setting bad examples, undermining reality by deceiving with lies, and persuading in the face of rational disbelief. Dr Ife here examines the connection between the objections posed to this fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato. This book shows how the aims and results of 'picaresque' novel writing in fact counter such objections. In a study of three sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spanish novels Dr Ife demonstrates that the authors consciously exploited their readers' response to a narrative in order to bring them to a clearer understanding of their own experience. In this way the very process of representation deplored by the Platonist critics may be regarded as having a moral validity of its own. Additional English translations are provided of all the key extracts studied.

Fiction --- Spanish literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- 860 "15/16" --- 930.85.44 <46> --- Picaresque literature, Spanish --- -Books and reading --- -Literature and morals --- Literature --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Spanish picaresque literature --- Spanish fiction --- Spaanse literatuur--?"15/16" --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance--Staten van het Iberische Schiereiland --- History and criticism --- History --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Aleman, Mateo --- Quevedo, Francisco de --- Books and reading --- Literature and morals --- History and criticism. --- Alemán, Mateo, --- Quevedo, Francisco de, --- Lazarillo de Tormes. --- 930.85.44 <46> Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance--Staten van het Iberische Schiereiland --- 860 "15/16" Spaanse literatuur--?"15/16" --- Alemán, Mateo, --- Lazarillo --- Lázaro de Tormes --- Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes --- Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades --- Vida de Lorenzillo de Tormes --- Vida del Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades --- Segunda parte de Lazarillo de Tormes --- Arts and Humanities

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