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  • Print publication year: 1999
  • Online publication date: March 2008

59 - Cultural commentary in seventeenth–century Spain: literary theory and textual practice

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Seventeenth-century Spain was a period as committed to cultural commentary and even indictment, in spite of the repressive ethos of the Counter-Reformation. Like postmodernism, the Baroque is the cultural expression of a society bent on critically appraising the myths of the preceding era which viewed itself as paradigmatically modern. Both movements undermine a humanist vision: be it that of Erasmian humanism or secular humanism. The complexity of this period and its literary representation cannot be overemphasized. María de Zayas, for example, would lament the passing of the Golden Age represented by the Catholic kings, from the perspective of the decaying seventeenth-century society in which she lived in a very particular sense, namely, from the perspective of gender relations. Although the Counter-Reformation mentality produced a considerable number of like-minded literary texts, it also provoked the writing of innumerable texts that resisted its dictates.

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  • Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521300087
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