Teorías de la prosa histórica en la temprana modernidad

Criticón

关键词: Historiographical theory;    Pragmatic history;    Historical prose;    Narrative style;    Early Modern Period;    Vives Juan Luis;   

DOI  :  10.4000/criticon.807

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article gives an account of the debates about historical prose style that took place at the very centre of Spanish historiographical theory in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The evolution of the opinions and arguments that were critical of formal and rhetorical aspects of historical narrative is framed in what has come to be known as the pragmatic turn of history in the Early Modern period, that is, the movement towards a conception of the discipline in which the political use of historical knowledge and epistemological reflection increased in importance to the detriment of history’s literary dimension and moralizing function. This article uses a varied and extensive corpus of sources, from Juan Luis Vives (1531) to Jerónimo de San José (1651), to examine and illustrate the changes and innovations in the assumptions, reasons, authorities and models that shaped the debate on historical prose style, bringing out the ways in which theories of historical style acknowledged the influence of the pragmatic drift in Early Modern historiography and revealing how, at the same time, stylistic criticism contributed to the completion of this process, as it gradually favoured the adoption of a historical narrative that was without artifice, but plain, clear, brief, and above all, effective in its political instruction of the reader.

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