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aesthetic turn
Author_Susan Byrne
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early modern Spanish art
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literary imagery in Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
philosophical aesthetics
philosophy of aesthetics
sensory experience in literature
truth and beauty in Cervantes
Product details
- ISBN 9781487561451
- Weight: 1g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2025
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Aesthetic Turn in Cervantes broadens our understanding of this transformative period. Susan Byrne examines a little-known legal treatise published in 1600 that defended artists’ rights and served as a rallying cry for writers in Madrid. The book investigates early efforts to define creative writing as "good," "human," or "polished" letters, foreshadowing the mid-seventeenth-century French concept of belles lettres. Byrne closely analyses Cervantes’s exploration of key aesthetic themes, including sensory experience, the interplay between sentiment and reason, the role of imagination in art, and the complex nature of truth and beauty.
Ultimately, the book illuminates how Cervantes gradually reconceptualized art and its truths as fully human expressions throughout his lifetime, both formally and substantively.
Ultimately, the book illuminates how Cervantes gradually reconceptualized art and its truths as fully human expressions throughout his lifetime, both formally and substantively.
Susan Byrne is a professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
