{"product_id":"converting-fiction-david-h-darst-9780807892633","title":"Converting Fiction: Counter Reformational Closure in the Secular Literature of Golden Age Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis study examines the many ways in which seventeenth-century Spanish authors manipulated the expected outcomes of secular literature to create religiously motivated endings prompted by some kind of conversion. In the late sixteenth century, the prevalent technique was to transform the secular material entirely, \u003ci\u003ea lo divino\u003c\/i\u003e. After 1598, however, writers developed the ingenious procedure of ostensibly following a secular account of events but subverting it by inserting an unanticipated religious ending.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe specific kinds of conversion at closure examined here are the appropriation of earlier genres; conversion of non-Christian literary types; personal conversion of the native Spaniard through the Catholic ritual of confession, penitence, and absolution; conversion of the nation's historical material; and conversion of the very landscape upon which Christians walk in their pilgrimage through life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David H. Darst\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807892637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807892633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unc Department of Romance Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.15h x 5.99w x 0.58d","brand":"David H. Darst","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48457725706495,"sku":"9780807892633","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6665936-1e87-4fa9-ad35-a9e909bfdf84.jpg?v=1777400671","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/converting-fiction-david-h-darst-9780807892633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}