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Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age (Monografías A)
Isabel Torres
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781855662650
SKU
V9781855662650
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99-50
Reviews for Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age (Monografías A)
One of the greatest values of this study is its seamless coverage of each poet. By singling out the poems that seem best to exemplify their thematics, the author adeptly brings up for review past and current criticism, from the poets' contemporaries to the most recent studies by international scholars, jettisoning tired polemics in the process. Vigorously questioning and challenging ... Read more