The melancholy void : lyric and masculinity in the age of Góngora /

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Felipe Valencia examines the construction of lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sings of and perpetrates symbolic violence against the feminine and the female beloved in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Valencia, Felipe, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Series:New hispanisms.
Subjects:
1500-1700
Effeminacy in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Spanish poetry > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Intimate partner violence in literature.
Mélancolie dans la littérature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese
Spanish poetry > Classical period.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The melancholy and masculinist poetics in early modern Spanish lyric
  • The gendering of lyric and epic in Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-1590)
  • The Apollonian and Orphic masculinity of Fernando de Herrera's Algunas obras (1582)
  • Feminine voice and masculinist aims in Miguel de Cervantes's La Galatea (1585)
  • Between Liuvigild and Ingund in Juan de Arguijo's Versos (1612)
  • "El melancólico vacío" : The origins and fate of lyric according to Luis de Góngora's Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea and Soledades (1612-1617).

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