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Author Damiani, Bruno Mario.

Title La Diana of Montemayor as social & religious teaching / Bruno M. Damiani
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1983

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Description 1 online resource (116 pages)
Series Studies in Romance languages ; 28
Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 28.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561. Diana.
Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561 -- Political and social views
Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561 -- Religion
SUBJECT Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561 fast
Diana. swd
Montemayor, Jorge ((de)) swd
Montemayor, Jorge ((de)). ((Los)) siete libros de la Diana. swd
Diana (Montemayor, Jorge de) fast
Subject Didactic literature, Spanish -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Social problems in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM/European/Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance.
Didactic literature, Spanish
Literature and society
Political and social views
Religion
Social problems in literature
Herdersromans.
Spaans.
Spain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 83003608
ISBN 9780813162836
0813162831