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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Modern Humanities Research Association
2016
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