Examina el tema del naufragio en el Claribalte de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, a la luz de las teorías de Hans Blumenberg (Shipwreck with Spectator, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997) y «concerned specifically with the shifts in the positions or points of view established in Blumenberg’s study. This will allow me to formulate a wider hypothesis regarding the place of philosophy and the points of view it finds itself embodied in within the space of fiction during the transition from the medieval into the modern in Hispanic literatures» (p. 381).