Géneros literarios en el siglo XVI : el diálogo humanístico, crisol de experimentaciones literarias

Abstract

This work shows how the characteristic literary expression of humanism constitutes an evident step in the secularization of golden literary art in the process of representation of reality, focused from the point of view of the individual. The process of individualized literary representation of lived reality culminates in the modernity of the Cervantes novel. Consideration of the contribution of humanistic dialogues to golden literary art is suggested by the following question: why, with being so successful in the 16th century - more than 130 authors in the Spanish language, does it practically disappear later? To illustrate his objective, the author pays special attention to the Dialogue of the language of Juan de Valdés (1535) and the Tour of Turkey (1557).