el burlador de sevilla english translation full text

The rather pragmatic, demonstrative and didactic character of El pasajero will be contrasted with novellas from the collection Huerta de Valencia (1629) by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano (1584–1647), whose intradiegetic storytellers are likewise characterized by their middle-class, academic professions, including that of a lawyer.Īccording to the high level of development of a genre reaching its peak in these years, Castillo Solórzano’s novellas are very elaborate. Thus a wide range of casuistical narratives unfold, occasionally in the vicissitudes of life stories, mostly in shorter forms like exempla or anecdotes, and rarely with the elaborate arrangements and dramatic intensification reminiscent of contemporaneous novels. The work’s hybridity, which combines humanistic dialogue and autobiographical narrative, picaresque and pastoral novel, produces varied perspectives on the different dilemmas represented.

Bidwell-Steiner & Scham, in this volume), which characterizes the mental habitus of Counter-Reformation Spain, is reflected in the narrative characters of the text, identified by their respective professions and their place in life. The transdisciplinary significance of casuistry (cf. In this context, the hybrid text El pasajero (1617) proves to be an ideal object of investigation, especially since the author himself, as a jurist, displays casuistical thinking, argumentation and procedure. In view of the increasing importance of legal administrative structures during the reign of Philip II and the “legalist turn of mind” in the Baroque era, William Childers in 2011 (326) named such a focus as a desideratum for research, 1 which will be addressed here within the limits of a concrete case study. This contribution examines the relationship between casuistry and narrative literature in the Siglo de Oro, with particular attention to legal contexts.

El burlador de sevilla english translation full text