Abstract

ESPINO MARTIN, Javier. Between educational regeneration and literary polemics: The “sátira gramatical” and the figure of the latin professor in writers and “men of letters” in Spain 18th century. Nueva rev. filol. hisp. [online]. 2017, vol.65, n.1, pp.101-141. ISSN 2448-6558.  https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v65i1.2830.

In the following article an analysis is made of the emergence of the carnivalesque “grammatical satire”, as exemplified in the literary figure of the Latin teacher in the context of the literary polemics of 18th century Spain. In the first part of the study, we define the concept and present an overview of representative authors who, throughout the history of literature, have used this variety of satirical genre in their works. In the second part, we study in detail the way in which “grammatical satire” represents the specific literary figure of the Latin teacher, in an effort to demonstrate how this figure highlights the literary polemics of “scholars” and “men of letters” in five works from 18th century Spain.

Keywords : Grammatical satire; kind of literary genre; roman satire; carnivalesque satire; 18th century Spain.

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