Literature and historiography in the Spanish Golden Age the poetics of history /

Kluge, Sofie,

Literature and historiography in the Spanish Golden Age the poetics of history / [electronic resource] : Sofie Kluge. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Writing history. Theory of history -- Historical prose -- Poeticising history. Theory of poetry -- Historical poetry -- Staging history. Theory of drama -- Historical drama.

Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into the period's own "aesthetic-historical culture" which amalgamated fact and fiction in ways modern historians would consider counterfactual: a culture where imaginative historical prose, poetry and drama self-consciously rivalled the accounts of royal chroniclers and the dispatches of diplomatic envoys; a culture dominated by a notion of truth in which skilful construction of the argument and exemplarity took precedence over factual accuracy. Literature and Historiography in the Spanish Golden Age: The Poetics of History investigates this grey area backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of Golden Age aesthetic-historical works which cannot be satisfactorily described as either works of literature or works of historiography but which belong in between these later strictly separate categories.


Sofie Kluge holds a PhD (2007) in Comparative Literature and aDr. Habil. (2014) both from the University of Copenhagen. She is currentlyan associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark. She ia also an editor of Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies. She is a member of the Academia Europaea. She is the author of four monographs and more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on a variety of literary historical and theoretical topics.

9781000450866 1000450864 9781003203575 1003203574 9781000450842 1000450848

10.4324/9781003203575 doi

9781003203575 Taylor & Francis

GBC1B5739 bnb

020266605 Uk


1500-1700


Spanish literature--History and criticism.--Classical period, 1500-1700
Historiography--History--Spain--16th century.
Historiography--History--Spain--17th century.
Literature and history--Spain.
History in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
Historiography.
History in literature.
Literature and history.
Spanish literature--Classical period.


Spain--Historiography.
Spain.


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

PQ6066

860.9/358