A special issue of the Classical Receptions Journal includes essays on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literary theory – a period of radical change in the field. It offers a fresh perspective on well-known treatises of that time and introduces previously understudied texts, particularly those produced in the Iberian Americas.
Keywords
Artes poeticae; Aristotle; Horace; classicism; prescriptivism; New World poetics; comedy; the image of the bear.
