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Subject(s)

• Spanish literature—Classical period, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Literature and history—Spain [Browse]
• History in literature [Browse]

Series

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture [More in this series]

Summary note

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. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART I: Writing History
• 1 Theory of History
• Calling for Plot
• Platonic History
• Ut pictura historia
• Verisimilitude
• True Falseness
• 2 Historical Prose
• A General History
• The Historian's Toolbox
• Alternative Histories
• The True History
• PART II: Poeticising History
• 3 Theory of Poetry
• Weaving a Story
• Benefits of History
• Writing Christian Deeds
• 4 Historical Poetry
• A Historical Master
• Popular Historiography?
• Poetry as Counterhistory
• The Voice of History
• Destabilising Dream
• PART III: Staging History
• 5 Theory of Drama
• Cathartic History
• Tragicomedy Takes the Stage
• Theatrum Historiae
• 6 Historical Drama
• Dramaturge of History
• History-Errant
• History as Divine Pageant
• The Historian's Hand
• Doublespeak
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-00-320357-4
• 1-000-45084-8
• 1-003-20357-4
• 1-000-45086-4

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