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Alone together : poetics of the passions in late medieval Iberia /

"The turn of the fifteenth century saw an explosion of literature throughout Iberia that was not just sentimental, but about sentiment. Alone Together reveals the political, ethical, and poetic dimensions of this phenomenon, which was among the most important of the substantial changes in intel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berlin, Henry (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Series:Toronto Iberic ; 59.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : courtly conflict and the passions
  • Part One: Friendship and Pleasure. 1. Classical rhetoric and vernacular theories of social integration
  • 2. Alfonso de Madrigal, el Tostado, on the politics of friendship
  • 3. Reason and its discontents
  • Part Two: Compassion and Consolation. 4. Impassibility, pity, community
  • 5. Passionate quotation
  • 6. The impasse of the courtly reward
  • 7. Confession, consolation, and the poetics of hylomorphism
  • Conclusion : tragic enclosure.