Sacred Disillusions: The Challenge of Ambiguous desengaño in Early Modern Spain.
The article investigates the ambiguous nature of desengaño (disillusion) in early modern Spanish literature, highlighting its dual role as both a desirable awakening and a mentally challenging state. Topics include historical and semantic analysis of the term in dictionaries, comparisons of its reli...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 109; no. 3; pp. 317 - 334 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2025
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| Sumario: | The article investigates the ambiguous nature of desengaño (disillusion) in early modern Spanish literature, highlighting its dual role as both a desirable awakening and a mentally challenging state. Topics include historical and semantic analysis of the term in dictionaries, comparisons of its religious and pessimistic interpretations, and examinations of stage portrayals in works by Tirso de Molina and Juan Bautista Diamante. |
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