The hermeneutic turn: Quevedo from Literary Theory

This study, written by two teachers of literary theory, aims to highlight that Francisco de Quevedo, both poet and prose writer, is the Spanish author of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, aside from Cervantes, who has been most assiduously and penetratingly studied by central figures of literary theory, in such a way that his work has served to raise, explain or develop fundamental concepts of literary theory. It is no coincidence that Quevedo is referred to by Bakhtin, Spitzer (who received his doctorate with a thesis on El Buscon), the stylistics of Damaso Alonso, Lazaro Carreter and Alessandro Martinengo, the Slavic formalism, the literary sociology of Edmond Cros, or the theories on satire, parody and the grotesque.