Language and Ideology in the Prose of Quevedo, by William H. Clamurro.
Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1. Quevedo and the Historical Context
2. Ideology, Rhetoric, and Literary Form
3. Satire and the New Languages
The Language of the Buscón
The Buscón: Ideological Readings
1. Alonso Ramplón’s Letter
2. Pablos and the arbitrista
3. Don Diego’s Cape
4. Conclusion: “Y fueme peor”
The Sueños and the Ideology of Agudeza
1. Introduction
2. The Question of Hypocrisy
3. El munda par de dentra and the Adequacy of Wit
The Rhetorical Politics of the Pólitica de Dios
Part II of the Pólitica de Dios
Quevedo’s World as Political Language: Reading La hora de todos
Epilogue: The Exhaustion of Language
Bibliography
ISBN 978-1-58871-50-2 (HB) 212 pp. $48.