The Poetics of Friendship in Early Modern Spain

Friendship as a poetic principle in early modern Spanish literary works Traces the evolution of classical Aristotelian-Ciceronian notions of perfect friendship into an independent formal principle within the literary production of early modern SpainChapters covering several important genres from the period including the interpolated short story, the pastoral novel, the comedia , and the picaresque novelArgues for a dialectical transformation within the poetics of friendship as an important influ