Studies on Women's Poetry of the Golden Age
Title | Studies on Women's Poetry of the Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Julián Olivares |
Publisher | Tamesis Books |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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This collection comprises 14 essays by eminent feminist scholars of the Spanish early modern period.
The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Title | The Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz PDF eBook |
Author | Emilie L. Bergmann |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2017-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317041658 |
Called by her contemporaries the "Tenth Muse," Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–1695) has continued to stir both popular and scholarly imaginations. While generations of Mexican schoolchildren have memorized her satirical verses, only since the 1970s has her writing received consistent scholarly attention., focused on complexities of female authorship in the political, religious, and intellectual context of colonial New Spain. This volume examines those areas of scholarship that illuminate her work, including her status as an iconic figure in Latin American and Baroque letters, popular culture in Mexico and the United States, and feminism. By addressing the multiple frameworks through which to read her work, this research guide serves as a useful resource for scholars and students of the Baroque in Europe and Latin America, colonial Novohispanic religious institutions, and women’s and gender studies. The chapters are distributed across four sections that deal broadly with different aspects of Sor Juana's life and work: institutional contexts (political, economic, religious, intellectual, and legal); reception history; literary genres; and directions for future research. Each section is designed to provide the reader with a clear understanding of the current state of the research on those topics and the academic debates within each field.
Autumn Willows
Title | Autumn Willows PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
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The fabled middle Tang dynasty of China lasted almost three hundred years (618â¬"905). These centuries embodied martial conflict, unbelievable wealth and opulence for a few, and horrible poverty for many. Through it all, an unwieldy caste system governed lord and serf alike. In this exotic, beautiful, and forbidding culture, poetry was revered and practiced by many. Three women poets, especially, endured through the centuries as the voices of their time. For the first time in English, the poetry of the Taoist priestesses, Le Yi and Yu Xuanji, and the slave, Xue Tao is presented.
Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age
Title | Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Torres |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1855662655 |
Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and self-definition. This work engages with a broader evaluation of early modern poetics that foregrounds the processes rather than the products of thinking. The locus of the study is the Imperial 'home' space, where love poetry meets early modern empire at the inception of a very conflicted national consciousness, and where the vernacular language, Castilian, emerges in the encounter as a strategic site of national and imperial identity. The political is, therefore, a pervasive presence, teased out where relevant in recognition of the poet's sensitivity to the ideologies within which writing comes into being. But the primary commitment of the book is to lyric poetry, and to poets, individually and intheir dynamic interconnectedness. Moving beyond a re-evaluation of critical responses to four major poets of the period (Garcilaso de la Vega, Herrera, Góngora and Quevedo), this study disengages respectfully with the substantialbody of biographical research that continues to impact upon our understanding of the genre, and renegotiates the Foucauldian concept of the 'epistemic break', often associated with the anti-mimetic impulses of the Baroque. This more flexible model accommodates the multiperspectivism that interrogated Imperial ideology even in the earliest sixteenth-century poetry, and allows for the exploration of new horizons in interpretation. Isabel Torres isProfessor of Spanish Golden Age Literature and Head of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Queen's University, Belfast.
The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers
Title | The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Nieves Baranda |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 787 |
Release | 2017-08-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317043626 |
In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of works written by women. Whether secular or religious, noble or middle class, early modern Spanish women actively composed creative works such as poetry, prose narratives, and plays. The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers covers the broad array of different kinds of writings – literary as well as extra-literary – that these women wrote, taking into consideration their subject positions and the cultural and historical contexts that influenced and were influenced by them. Beyond merely recognizing the individual women authors who had influence in literary, religious, and intellectual circles, this Research Companion investigates their participation in these circles through their writings, as well as the ways in which their texts informed Spain’s cultural production during the early modern period. In order to contextualize women’s writings across the historical and cultural spectrum of early modern Spain, the Research Companion is divided into six sections of general thematic interest: Women’s Worlds; Conventual Spaces; Secular Literature; Women in the Public Sphere; Private Circles; Women Travelers. Each section is subdivided into chapters that focus on specific issues or topics.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Title | The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Couchman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 2016-03-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317041046 |
Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.
Reason and Its Others
Title | Reason and Its Others PDF eBook |
Author | David R. Castillo |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780826515452 |
By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other.