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Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to
show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth
century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses
of love and make them compelling again? This volume explores how
Spanish letters recognized that old love paradigms, especially the
crisis of the subject, presented an extraordinary opportunity for
revising traditional literary strictures. As a result, during
Spain's nascent modernity, literature took up the challenge to
expand existing forms of desire and subjectivity. A range of
scholars show how canonical and non-canonical Golden Age writers
like Miguel de Cervantes, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Francisco de
Quevedo, Luis de Gongora, Lope de Vega, and Francisco de la Torre y
Sevil became equal agents of the sweeping ontological
reconfiguration of the idea of eros that defined their culture.
Such reconfiguration includes: the troubling displacement of "self"
and "other" seen in sentimental genres like the pastoral or
romance; the overlapping of emotions such as love and jealousy
characteristic of the baroque lyric and dramatic production; and
the conflation of axioms such as eros and eris prevalent in
contemporaneous epic experiments. In uniting the findings of often
surprising texts, the collection of essays in Goodbye Eros takes a
pioneering look at how Golden Age moral, ideological, scientific,
and literary discourses intersected to create fascinating
re-elaborations of the trope of love.
Live performance of Swedish choreographer Mats Ek's adaptation of
Adolphe Adam's romantic ballet featuring Ana Laguna in the lead
role accompanied by other members of The Cullberg Ballet. Richard
Bonynge conducts the Orchestre National de L'Opera de Monte-Carlo.
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