Entre la regeneración educativa y las polémicas literarias: la "sátira gramatical" y la figura del profesor de latinidad en escritores y "hombres de letras" del siglo XVIII español

Reception: January 18, 2016 Accepted: May 26, 2016  In the following article an analysis is made of the emergence of the carnivalesque “grammatical satire”, as exemplified in the literary figure of the Latin teacher in the context of the literary polemics of 18th  century Spain. In the first part of the study, we define the concept and present an overview of representative authors who, throughout the history of literature, have used this variety of satirical genre in their works. In the second part, we study in detail the way in which “grammatical satire” represents the specific literary figure of the Latin teacher, in an effort to demonstrate how this figure highlights the literary polemics of “scholars” and “men of letters” in five works from18th century Spain.