Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega : The Making of La Dorotea / Alan S. Trueblood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trueblood, Alan S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Criticism and interpretation.

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Relations with women--Elena Osorio.

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635. Dorotea.

Local Subjects:

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Criticism and interpretation.

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Relations with women--Elena Osorio.

Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635. Dorotea.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (798 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a major book about one of the luminaries of the golden age of Spanish literature. In spite of his great reputation, Lope de Vega is to most of us merely a name, in part because of the prodigious quantity and variety of his plays and other writings in verse and prose. Alan Trueblood's book does not pretend to survey all of Lope's works or to touch on all the events of his colorful career; yet it probes the mind and heart, and art, of Lope as no other study in English has done. Trueblood pursues the artistic consequences of a key experience in Lope's life, the four-year love affair with Elena Osorio that terminated violently in 1587. (The rejected Lope, age twenty-five, wrote slanderous verses about Elena's family and associates, was jailed on charges of libel, and was sentenced to ten years' exile.) Notwithstanding his subsequent marriages and liaisons, his mounting literary fame in Spain and abroad, and his eventual dedication to the Church as a priest, for forty-five years this experience reverberated intermittently in his writings, culminating in the great prose dialogue La Dorotea. Trueblood's demonstration of the increasing objectivity and sympathy with which Lope treats Elena/ Dorotea--in ballads, in sonnets, in plays, in La Dorotea--is psychologically as well as aesthetically revealing. Trueblood provides by far the fullest analysis and elucidation of Lope's masterpiece, La Dorotea, that it has ever received--and in the process he probes the nature of literary creativity, the symbiosis between personal experience and artistic expression, in contexts going well beyond Lope and his age. Because the book will appeal to many readers who do not know Spanish, all "ations have been translated into English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

I. Introduction

II. Lope and Elena Osorio

III. The Artistic Ballads: Moorish and Pastoral Masks

IV. Thematic Trends in Sonnet Cycles

V. Belardo el Furioso

VI. The Years Between

VII. History and Poetry in La Dorotea

VIII. Action and Psychology

IX. Dramatic and Lyric Aspects of Form

X. Style and Literary Stylization

XI. Desengaño

XII. The Meaning of La Dorotea

Principal Works Cited, Notes, Index

Principal Works Cited

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-59440-1

OCLC:

1013948186