Maria Robertson-Justiniano

The Architecture of the Margins

Gongora's Las Soledades

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work examines the contradictions in Góngora s
representation of the bucolic landscape in the
Baroque masterpiece of the Soledades. The analysis
focuses on a fundamental disjunction noted frequently
by Gongorine scholars between the form of the poem
and its purported theme. Many critics have
questioned the incongruity between the poem s
elaborate language its recurrent metaphors based on
architectural configurations characteristic of the
highly artificial Baroque court and city and the
underlying theme of the simple life of the pastoral
world. This book argues that the apparent
contradiction between form and content that divides
the poem is in fact an essential process in Góngora s
creation of an original and dynamic style. Although
Góngora s style subverts the traditional Renaissance
pastoral (Alabanza de aldea / menosprecio de corte),
it creates a paradoxical pastoral that should be
understood as a powerful manifestationof the
complexities of Baroque literary art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9783836453059
• ISBN-10: 3836453053
• Artikelnr.: 25671277

Autorenporträt

Maria Robertson-Justiniano has a PhD from Princeton University in
Spanish Golden Age Literature. She also holds a Masters from the
University of Western Ontario in Spanish Golden Age Literature
and a Masters from Princeton University in Spanish Golden Age
Literature. She presently works as a part-time Lecturer at the
University of Chicago.