Ironic allusion and the human mind in Calderón's La cisma de Inglaterra

With reference to Aquinas's ‘Treatise on the Passions’ this article suggests that psychological self-opacity was a phenomenon known to the premodern world. Alongside analysis of three allusions—which, it is argued, spectators would have understood as ironic—it posits that Calderón hoped, by the...

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Main Author: Norton, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Modern Humanities Research Association 2016