The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque
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240 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

Series: Monografías A

Series Vol. Number: 366

Imprint: Tamesis Books

The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque

by Anne Holloway

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A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America.

In her analysis of the verse of representative poets of the Hispanic Baroque, Holloway demonstrates how these writers occupy an Arcadia which is de-familiarised and yet remains connected to the classical origins of the mode. Herstudy includes recent manuscript discoveries from the Spanish Baroque (Fábula de Alfeo y Aretusa, now attributed to the Gongorist poet Pedro Soto de Rojas), the poetry of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and Francisco de Quevedo. The study considers pastoral as a global cultural phenomenon of the Early Modern period, its reverberations reaching as far as Viceregal Peru. The tradition of the pastoral as a site for the discussion of 'great matters in theforest' has deep roots, and re-emerges to praise the urban hearts of empire. Furthermore, it proves to be a site of spiritual encounter--a poetic space that frames the staging of indigenous conversion in the poetry of Diego Mexiaand Fernando de Valverde. Within the intricacies of this literary construct, surface artistry sustains an effect of artless innocence that is vibrantly contested across the secular, sacred, parodic and colonial text.

Anne Holloway is a Lecturer in Spanish, Queen's University Belfast.
Acknowledgements
Es más difícil la parte que responde: The Challenge of Baroque Pastoral
Con no tan dulce y mas sentido canto: A Baroque Pastoral in the Poetry of Pedro Soto de Rojas
Con la pastoril zamarra cubierta: The Spiritual Poetry of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
Arranca de Dafne sin piedad los brazos: The Pastoral Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo
Otros montes, otro ríos: The Aension of Alterity in a Spanish American Pastoral
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Title Details

240 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

Series: Monografías A

Series Vol. Number: 366

Imprint: Tamesis Books