Moral-Allegorical Names in Gracián's Criticón

STUDY OF INVENTED LITERARY NAMES has lagged far behind that of toponyms and historical family names, and yet imaginative literature has produced an uncommon number of names which not only achieved extensive common use (especially in the Renaissance) but from time immemorial have formed an important element of literary invention. I am concerned here with the particular case of moral-allegorical names in the foremost didactic work of the Spanish Baroque. They are of interest both because they illustrate a continuing historical phenomenon and because in the day of "mannered" literary techniques they came to be key ingredients. in one writer's didacto-literary system

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