conceptism


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conceptism

Rare. the use of a particular form of literary conceit in Spanish prose.
See also: Literary Style
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My one serious quibble with this chapter is the rather egregious omission of Baltasar Gracian's Agudeza y arte del ingenio (1648), arguably the Bible for a Spanish baroque literary movement called Conceptism and an important source for understanding contemporaneous notions of encoding and decoding (to cite Stuart Hall).
Philip Lorenz. The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama
The Conceptism as a Rhetorical Device in Newspaper Opinion Columns.
El conceptismo como recurso retorico en columnas periodisticas personales. Analisis de un tema: la obesidad

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