Bucolic Metaphors History, Subjectivity, and Gender in the Early Modern Spanish Pastoral / by Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández-Pecoraro, Rosilie

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 287.

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 287

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montemayor, Jorge de, 1520?-1561. Diana.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Galatea.

Metaphor.

Women in literature.

Pastoral fiction, Spanish--History and criticism.

Pastoral fiction, Spanish.

Spanish fiction--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish fiction.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages, 2006.

Summary:

An in-depth examination of the cultural functions of the pastoral in Spain, this study of Montemayor's La Diana and Cervantes's pastoral texts moves away from studies that consider this literature as purely escapist and imitative.

Contents:

Cover

BUCOLIC METAPHORS: HISTORY, SUBJECTIVITY, AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN SPANISH PASTORAL

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: PASTORAL METAPHORS: HISTORY AS AN ABSENT CAUSE IN THE SPANISH PASTORAL NOVEL

I. The Ideal vs. the Real: The Pastoral as Symbolic Act

II. Prados y Palacios: History Narrativized in La Diana and La Galatea

III. Historical Subtext and Gendered Subjects

CHAPTER 2: PASTORAL ESCAPES: IDEAL SUBJECTIVITY AND COMMUNITY IN MONTEMAYOR'S LA DIANA AND CERVANTES'S LA GALATEA

I. Pastoral Love and the Construction of the Ideal Self

II. Pastoral Communities: What's love got to do with it?

III. Poetic Practice and the Pastoral Community: An Additional Note

CHAPTER 3: THE "OTHER" PASTORAL: ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS OF FEMALE SUBJECTIVITY IN LA DIANA AND LA GALATEA

I. In the Beginning there was Garcilaso: The Second Eclogue and the Pastoral Novel

II. Montemayor's La Diana and the Female Subject: Transgression and Reinscription

III. La Galatea: The Pastoral Community Revisited

IV. Cervantes Performs the Female Poetic Voice: Enfadosas Suegras and other Feminine Complaints in La Galatea

CHAPTER 4: THE METAPHOR UNDONE: CERVANTES'S UNMASKING OF THE PASTORAL

I. La casa de los celos y selvas de Ardenia: The Pastoral Metaphor Disrupted

II. Don Quixote: Parody, Female Agency, and the Undoing of the Pastoral Metaphor

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.

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ISBN:

1-4696-4280-8

OCLC:

1080549096