Jesús G. Maestro

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Jesús González Maestro (Gijón, 1 December 1967) is a Spanish literary critic and theorist, scholar, and professor. He developed a scientific theory of literature rooted in the Hispanic-Greco-Latin literary tradition, from which he reinterpreted earlier literary theories in a distinctive and original way, from Plato and Aristotle to Bueno’s philosophical materialism. His approach is particularly Baroque in its complexity, anti-Enlightenment, and anti-idealist. He does not subscribe to any system of thought external to his own theoretical framework. As he puts it: “I speak on behalf of no ideology, no philosophy, and no religion: I speak on behalf of the literary knowledge at my disposal. Literature is a struggle for freedom against the enemies of reason."

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