Love poetry of the literary academies in the reigns of Philip IV and Charles II
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Love poetry of the literary academies in the reigns of Philip IV and Charles II
（Colección Támesis, . Serie A. Monográfias ; 166）
Tamesis, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-191) and index
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Description
Detailed consideration of the poetry of the literary academies, with particular attention paid to the literary and social role of the academies in 17c Spain.
This is the first book-length study devoted to the distinctive love poetry produced by the literary academies which dominated literary and social life across Spain during the seventeenth century, offering an insight into an important and neglected aspect of European Baroque culture. The author presents them as both a literary and a social institution, arguing that it is the combination of these two aspects which explains their enduring popularity and the development of their distinctive poetic. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the academy evolved from and in turn transformed contemporary Italian and Spanish practice. The distinctive nature of its poetry, mixing theerotic and the courtly, the frivolous and the metaphysical, not only debased the prevalent Petrarchan model and so accelerated its decline, but also influenced the verse of poets such as Quevedo, Gongora, and Lope de Vega. Dr JEREMY ROBBINSteaches in the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 "El Seminario de los Entendidos, el Taller de los Bien Hablados, el Colegio de los Discretos" - the academy and 17th-century Spain. Part 2 The acedemy and the "Justa Poetica". Part 3 Academy topics and 17th-century love poetry: in praise of the specific
- anecdote and melodrama - the amatory scenario and academy topics
- the casuistry of love - paradoxes, dilemmas and conundrums. Part 4 From lyricism to performance - the poetic persona in academy love poetry. Part 5 Unity and diversity - academy poetry and the disintegration of form.
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