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Book SynopsisAntonio Gomez-Moriana applies contemporary literary theory - theoretical and methodological principles - to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including "Lazarillo de Tormes"," Don Quixote", Tirso de Molina's "Don Juan" play, and Columbus's "Diary".
Table of ContentsSemiotics and philology in text analysis; The subversion of ritual discourse - an intertextual reading of Lazarillo de Tormes; Intertextuality, interdiscursiveness, and parody: On the origins of the narrative form in the picaresque novel; Autobiography and ritual discourse - the autobiographical confession before the Inquisition; Narration and argumentation in autobiographical discourse; Evocation as a literary procedure in "Don Quijote"; Discourse pragmatics and reciprocity of perspectives: The promises of Juan Haldudo ("Don Quijote" I,4) and of Don Juan; The antimodernization of Spain; Narration and argumentation in the chronicles of the New World; The emerging of a discursive instance - Columbus and the invention of the "Indian"; The (relative) autonomy of artistic expression - Bakhtin and Adorno.
