The Poet and the Natural World in the Age of Góngora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poet and the Natural World in the Age of Góngora write by Michael Woods. This book was released on 1978. The Poet and the Natural World in the Age of Góngora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Poet and the Natural World in the Age of Góngora
The Poet and the Natural World in the Age of Góngora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poet and the Natural World in the Age of Góngora write by Michael Woods. This book was released on 1978. The Poet and the Natural World in the Age of Góngora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination
The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination write by Marsha Suzan Collins. This book was released on 2002. The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prince of Darkness or Angel of Light? The pastoral masterpiece the Soledades garnered both titles for its author, Luis de Góngora, one of Spain's premier poets. In The Soledades, Góngora's Masque of the Imagination, Marsha S. Collins focuses on the brilliant seventeenth-century Spanish poet's contentious work of art. The Soledades have sparked controversy since they were first circulated at court in 1612-1614 and continue to do so even now, as Góngora has become for some critics the poster child of postmodernism. These perplexing 2,000-plus line pastoral poems garnered endless debates over the value and meaning of the author's enigmatic, challenging poetry and gave rise to his reputation, causing his very name to become an English term for obscurity. Collins views these controversial poems in a different light, as a literary work that is a product of European court culture.
Researching the Song
Researching the Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Researching the Song write by Shirlee Emmons. This book was released on 2008. Researching the Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Original publication and copyright date: 2006.
The Return of Astraea
The Return of Astraea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Return of Astraea write by Frederick A. de Armas. This book was released on 2021-03-17. The Return of Astraea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In classical mythology Astraea, the goddess of justice, chastity, and truth, was the last of the immortals to leave Earth with the decline of the ages. Her return was to signal the dawn of a new Golden Age. This myth not only survived the Christian Middle Ages but also became a commonplace in the Renaissance when courtly poets praised their patrons and princes by claiming that Astraea guided them. The literary cult of Astraea persisted in the sixteenth century as writers saw in Elizabeth I of England the imperial Astraea who would lead mankind to peace through universal rule. This and other late flowerings of the Astraea myth should not be taken as the final phases of her history. Frederick A. de Armas documents in this book what may well be the last great rebirth of Astraea, one that is probably of greater political, religious, and literary significance than others previously described by historians and literary critics. The Return of Astraea focuses on the seventeenth-century Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and analyzes the deity's presence in thirteen of his plays, including his masterpiece, La Vida es Sueho. Her popularity in this period is partially attributed to political motives, reflecting the aspirations and fears of the Spanish monarch Philip IV. In this broad study, grounded on such diverse fields as astrology, iconography, history, mythology, and philosophy, de Armas explains that Astraea adopts many guises in Calderón's dramas. Ranging from the Kabbalah to Platonic thought and from satires on Olivares to cosmogonic myths, he analyzes and reinterprets Calderón's theater from a wide range of perspectives centered on the playwright's utilization of the myth of Astraea. The book thus represents a new view of Calderón's dramaturgy and also documents the popularity and significance of this astral-imperial myth during the Spanish Golden Age.
