Rewriting classical mythology in the Hispanic Baroque
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Rewriting classical mythology in the Hispanic Baroque
（Colección Támesis, Serie A. Monográfias ; 233）
Tamesis, 2007
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Includes index
Bibliography: p. [189]-204
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The treatment of mythological material in the poetry, prose, drama, art and music of the Hispanic Baroque.
Thirteen essays engage with one of the most obsessive aspects of the Baroque aesthetic, a dedicated commitment in distinct artistic contexts to the treatment of mythological material. Within the various 'Baroques' uncovered, thereis a single unity of purpose. Meaning is always negotiable, but the process of interpretation is dependent upon intertextual forms of understanding, and presupposes the active participation of the receiver. The volume explores how the paradigmatic mythical symbols of a Renaissance epistemological world view can be considered a barometer of rupture and a gauge of the contradictory impulses of the time.
Essays explore the differing functions of mythology in poetry [Quevedo, Espinosa, Gongora], prose [Cervantes], drama [Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, Calderon], art [Velazquez], and music [Latin American opera]. Collectively they trace the dialectic of continuity and rupture that underpins the appropriation of classical mythology in the period; demonstrating that the mythological legacy was not as uniform, as allegorically dominated, nor as depleted of potential as we are sometimes led to believe.
ISABEL TORRES is Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen's University, Belfast.
Contributors: JEAN ANDREWS , STEPHEN BOYD, D. W. CRUICKSHANK, TREVOR. J. DADSON, B.W. IFE, ANTHONY LAPPIN, OLIVER NOBLE WOOD, JEREMY ROBBINS, BRUCE SWANSEY, BARRY TAYLOR, ISABEL TORRES, D. GARETH WALTERS
Table of Contents
Introduction: Con pretension de Fenix -
`Al Cielo trasladado': Quevedo's Apotheosis Of Leander - D. Gareth Walters
River Gods of Andalusia: Pedro Espinosa's Fabula de Genil - Barry Taylor
Rewriting the Pastoral: Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea - Trevor J. Dadson
Galatea Descending...Rereading Gongora's Polifemo Stanzas -
A Tale of Twe Serpents: Biblical And Mythological Allusions In Cervantes's El celoso extremeno - Stephen Boyd
The Wound And The Bow: Cervantes, Philoctetes And The Pathology Of Genius - B. W. Ife
Myth or History? Lope de Vega's Caballero de Olmedo - Anthony John Lappin
Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Eco Y Narciso: Court Drama And The Poetics Of Reflection - Jeremy Robbins
From Allegory to Mockery: Baroque Theatrical Representations Of The Labyrinth - Bruce Swansey
Mars Recontextualized In The Golden Age Of Spain: Psychological And Aesthetic Readings of Velazquez's Marte - Oliver Noble Wood
Ut pictura poesis: Calderon's Picturing of Myth - D W Cruickshank
Opera On The Margins In Colonial Latin America: Conceived Under The Sign Of Love - J. M. Andrews
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