El discurso del mercader y sus incidencias literarias

The term “discurso del mercader” is understood as referring to the recurrent bourgeois demand that, in the writings of political treatise writers or the self same merchants seeks (between 1520 and 1620) to acquire a change in socio economic direction that would stem from a mercantile ethic based on...

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Main Author: Michel Cavillac
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Presses universitaires du Mirail 2014-07-01
Series:Criticón
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/criticon/730
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Summary:The term “discurso del mercader” is understood as referring to the recurrent bourgeois demand that, in the writings of political treatise writers or the self same merchants seeks (between 1520 and 1620) to acquire a change in socio economic direction that would stem from a mercantile ethic based on the “legitimate merchandise of things”. This innovative and ideologically ground-breaking discourse was doomed to failure but contributed nevertheless to create conditions that favoured realist poetics that was decisive as regards invention in the modern Spanish novel.
ISSN:0247-381X