Goodbye Eros : : Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes /

Goodbye Eros : : Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes / / ed. by Ana Laguna, John Beusterien.

Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses of love and make them compelling again? This volume explores how Spanish letters recognized that old l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
MitwirkendeR:
Alcalá Galán, Mercedes,
Beusterien, John,
Cammarata, Joan,
Clifford Graf, Eric,
Cohen, Eli,
De Armas Wilson, Diana,
Laguna, Ana María,
Lee, Christina,
Maestro, Jesús,
Martín, Adrienne L.,
Mccloskey, Jason,
HerausgeberIn:
Beusterien, John ,
Laguna, Ana,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Toronto Iberic
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Eros in the Age of Cervantes
  • Part I. Ambiguous Optics: Reframing Perception, Gender Subjectivity, and Genre Convention
  • 1. Egocentricity versus Persuasion: Eros, Logos, and Pathos in Cervantes's Marcela and Grisóstomo Episode
  • 2. The Deceived Gaze: Visual Fantasy, Art, and Feminine Adultery in Cervantes's Reading of Ariosto
  • Part II. Reasoning the Unreasonable: Toward a Rationale of Love
  • 3. El Greco's and Cervantes's Euclidean Theologies
  • 4. Love and the Laws of Literature: The Ethics and Poetics of Affect in Cervantes's "The Little Gypsy Girl"
  • 5. Eros and Ethos in the Political and Religious Logos of The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: Anomic Characters in Cervantes
  • Part III. Kissing between the Lines: Blurring Racial and Sexual Norms
  • 6. Sexy Beasts: Women and Lapdogs in Baroque Satirical Verse
  • 7. Sexual Deviance and Morisco Marginality in Cervantes's The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
  • 8. The Black Madonna Icon: Race, Rape, and the Virgin of Montserrat in The Confession with the Devil by Francisco de Torre y Sevil
  • Part IV. Recasting Epic and Heroic Moulds
  • 9. For Love of the White Sea: The Curious Identity of Uludj Ali
  • 10. Writing a Tragic Image: Eros and Eris in Lope de Vega's Jerusalem Conquered
  • 11. The Unromantic Approach to Don Quixote: Cervantine Love in the Spanish Post-War Age
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • TORONTO IBERIC

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