The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination

The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination
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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780826262851
ISBN-13 : 0826262856
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Synopsis The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination by : Marsha Suzan Collins

Prince of Darkness or Angel of Light? The pastoral masterpiece the Soledades garnered both titles for its author, Luis de Góngora, one of Spain's premier poets. In The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination, Marsha S. Collins focuses on the brilliant seventeenth-century Spanish poet's contentious work of art. The Soledades have sparked controversy since they were first circulated at court in 1612-1614 and continue to do so even now, as Góngora has become for some critics the poster child of postmodernism. These perplexing 2,000-plus line pastoral poems garnered endless debates over the value and meaning of the author's enigmatic, challenging poetry and gave rise to his reputation, causing his very name to become an English term for obscurity. Collins views these controversial poems in a different light, as a literary work that is a product of European court culture.

Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega

Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781855663176
ISBN-13 : 1855663171
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega by : Lindsay G. Kerr

Traces the processes and paradoxes at work in the late parodic poetry of Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega, illuminating correlations and connections.

Góngora's Soledades and the Problem of Modernity

Góngora's Soledades and the Problem of Modernity
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Publisher : Tamesis Books
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 1855661608
ISBN-13 : 9781855661608
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Synopsis Góngora's Soledades and the Problem of Modernity by : Crystal Anne Chemris

Góngora's Soledades, the major lyric poem of the Spanish Baroque. Combining philological rigor with a capacity to engage the most contemporary transatlantic and comparatist concerns, this work situates Luis de Góngora's Soledades within the problematic evolution of Hispanic modernity. As well as offering an insightful analysis of the Soledades as an expression of the Baroque crisis in all its facets -epistemological, ontological, cultural and historical - the author reads the fragmented lyric subject of Gongorist poetics back against Renaissance precursors [Rojas' Celestina and the poetry of Boscán and Garcilaso] and in anticipation of the truncated and isolated subject of modernity. The study concludes with an examination of the interaction between the legacies of Gongorism and French Symbolism in the work of selected poets of the Latin American Vanguard [Gorostiza, Paz and Vallejo]. CRYSTAL ANNE CHEMRIS is Visiting Assistant Professorof Spanish at the University of Iowa.

Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World

Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781684483723
ISBN-13 : 1684483727
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Synopsis Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World by : Carrie L. Ruiz

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the specter of shipwreck loomed large. Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World probes this preoccupation by examining portrayals of nautical disasters in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literature and culture. The essays collected here showcase shipwreck’s symbolic deployment to question colonial expansion and transoceanic trade; to critique the Christian enterprise overseas; to signal the collapse of dominant social order; and to relay moral messages and represent socio-political debates. The contributors find examples in poetry, theater, narrative fiction, and other print artifacts, and approach the topic variously through the lens of historical, literary, and cultural studies. Ultimately demonstrating how shipwrecks both shaped and destabilized perceptions of the Spanish Empire worldwide, this analytically rich volume is the first in Hispanic studies to investigate the darker side of mercantile and imperial expansion through maritime disaster.

The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque

The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781855663138
ISBN-13 : 1855663139
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Synopsis The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque by : Anne Holloway

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. In her analysis of the verse of representative poets of the Hispanic Baroque, Holloway demonstrates how these writers occupy an Arcadia which is de-familiarised and yet remains connected to the classical origins of the mode. Herstudy includes recent manuscript discoveries from the Spanish Baroque (Fábula de Alfeo y Aretusa, now attributed to the Gongorist poet Pedro Soto de Rojas), the poetry of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and Francisco de Quevedo. The study considers pastoral as a global cultural phenomenon of the Early Modern period, its reverberations reaching as far as Viceregal Peru. The tradition of the pastoral as a site for the discussion of 'great matters in theforest' has deep roots, and re-emerges to praise the urban hearts of empire. Furthermore, it proves to be a site of spiritual encounter--a poetic space that frames the staging of indigenous conversion in the poetry of Diego Mexiaand Fernando de Valverde. Within the intricacies of this literary construct, surface artistry sustains an effect of artless innocence that is vibrantly contested across the secular, sacred, parodic and colonial text. Anne Holloway is a Lecturer in Spanish, Queen's University Belfast.

Spanish Literature: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Spanish Literature: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 50
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ISBN-10 : 9780199809257
ISBN-13 : 0199809259
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Synopsis Spanish Literature: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by : Oxford University Press

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Electronic Literature in Latin America

Electronic Literature in Latin America
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9783030309886
ISBN-13 : 3030309886
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Electronic Literature in Latin America by : Claire Taylor

This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of work known as ‘electronic literature’, comprising literary works that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in their enactment. Focussing on six leading authors within Latin(o) America whose works have proved pioneering in the development of these new literary forms, the book proposes a three-fold approach of aesthetics, technologics, and ethics, as a framework for analyzing digital literature.

Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance

Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781317478850
ISBN-13 : 1317478851
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Synopsis Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance by : Marsha S. Collins

From Theocritus’ Idylls to James Cameron’s Avatar, Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic shift took place in imagining Arcadia. The traditional visions of Arcadia collided and fused with romance, the new experimental form of prose fiction, producing a hybrid, dynamic world of change and transformation. Emphasizing matters of fictional function and world-making over generic classification, Imagining Arcadia in Renaissance Romance analyzes the role of romance as a catalyst in remaking Arcadia in five, canonical sixteenth-century texts: Sannazaro’s Arcadia; Montemayor’s La Diana; Cervantes’ La Galatea; Sidney’s Arcadia; and Lope de Vega’s Arcadia. Collins’ analyses of the re-imagined Arcadia in these works elucidate the interplay between timely incursions into the fictional world and the timelessness of art, highlighting issues of freedom, identity formation, subjectivity and self-fashioning, the intersection of public and private activity, and the fascination with mortality. This book addresses the under-representation of Spanish literature in Early Modern literary histories, especially regarding the rich Spanish contribution to the pastoral and to idealizing fiction in the West. Companion chapters on Cervantes and Sidney add to the growing field of Anglo-Spanish comparative literary studies, while the book’s comparative and transnational approach extends discussion of the pastoral beyond the boundaries of national literary traditions. This book’s innovative approach to these fictional worlds sheds new light on Arcadia’s enduring presence in the collective imagination today.

Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain

Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781442645127
ISBN-13 : 1442645121
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Synopsis Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain by : Mary E. Barnard

These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads.

Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age

Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age
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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9780838755716
ISBN-13 : 0838755712
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age by : Frederick A. De Armas

Although the very notion of writing for the eyes was not new to the Spanish Golden Age, its ubiquitous presence during this period calls for rethinking of the traditional separation between the visual and the verbal in studies of Iberian culture." "This collection of essays seeks to open up this complex interdisciplinary field of study by including essays on many aspects of visual writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain."--Jacket.