Open AccessInsights on Original Narrative Fiction in the Political of Diego de Saavedra, Fajardo, Andrés Mendo, and Francisco Garau
Author(s) -
Antonio Pablo Bernat Vistarini,
John T. Cull
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
análisis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2386-8066
DOI - 10.26754/ojs_arif/a.rif.201722474
Subject(s) - emblem , narrative , politics , skepticism , rhetorical question , literature , baroque , history , trace (psycholinguistics) , philosophy , art , epistemology , law , political science , linguistics
This study explores the function of several types of narrative fiction utilized by three of the most distinguished political emblematists of the Hispanic Baroque: Diego Saavedra Fajardo, Andrés Mendo (who borrows liberally from the work of Solórzano Pereira) and the expressly anti-Machiavellian works of Francisco Garau. We consider the rationale behind choosing the emblem as a vehicle to express Counter-reformation political thought and we trace an evolution that leads to one of the books of Garau, which reveals itself to be a highly original work that propagates traditional rhetorical procedures and at the same time it conceals a radical skepticism affecting both the form and content of the work.Keywords: Emblems, Spanish Political Literature, Golden Age Literature, Narrative Fiction