Love poetry in the Spanish golden age
Subtitle: Eros, Eris and Empire
By: Isabel Torres
Series: Colección Támesis. Serie A: Monografías -- 328; Colección Támesis -- 328.
Publisher: Tamesis
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781855662650
Subjects: Spanish Love poetry; Spanish Poets; History and criticism; Spanish poetry
Description: This work engages with a broader evaluation of early modern poetics that foregrounds the processes rather than the products of thinking. The locus of the study is the Imperial 'home' space, where love poetry meets early modern empire at the inception of a very conflicted national consciousness, and where the vernacular language, Castilian, emerges in the encounter as a strategic site of national and imperial identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Garcilasco de la Vega (c. 1501-1536) : transfiguration and transvaluation; title: Garcilasco de la Vega : luz de nuestra nación?; title: Fernando de Herrera (1534-1597) : 'righting' the middle ; centres, circles and Algunas obras (1582); title: Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627) : into the dark; title: Luis de Góngora y Argote : out of the dark ; emulative poetry in motion; title: Francisco de Quevedo Villegas (1580-1645) : metaphor, materiality and metaphysics.