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Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age - Eros, Eris and Empire (Hardcover)
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Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age - Eros, Eris and Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Monografias A
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Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry
that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own
self-image and self-definition. 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. The
political is, therefore, a pervasive presence, teased out where
relevant in recognition of the poet's sensitivity to the ideologies
within which writing comes into being. But the primary commitment
of the book is to lyric poetry, and to poets, individually and
intheir dynamic interconnectedness. Moving beyond a re-evaluation
of critical responses to four major poets of the period (Garcilaso
de la Vega, Herrera, Gongora and Quevedo), this study disengages
respectfully with the substantialbody of biographical research that
continues to impact upon our understanding of the genre, and
renegotiates the Foucauldian concept of the 'epistemic break',
often associated with the anti-mimetic impulses of the Baroque.
This more flexible model accommodates the multiperspectivism that
interrogated Imperial ideology even in the earliest
sixteenth-century poetry, and allows for the exploration of new
horizons in interpretation. Isabel Torres isProfessor of Spanish
Golden Age Literature and Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at
Queen's University, Belfast.
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