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- Title: Constructing Authority in Lope de Vega's Egloga a Claudio: Self-Referentiality, Literary Judgment, And Ethics.
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 206 KB
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THE poetry of Lope de Vega has most often been analyzed for its treatment of themes such as love, religious devotion, or autobiographical introspection. However, one other key aspect of his poetry, especially of his longer poetical works (such as his epistolas and eglogas), is the engagement of literature and ethical concerns often related to the art of writing poetry. The purpose of this study is to examine one such work, the Egloga a Claudio (1631), (1) a lengthy poem which normally should be classified as an epistola, for its role as a literary vehicle for passing judgment on different issues. In the Egloga, a number of key issues will emerge. First, Lope expresses a generally critical attitude with respect to the linguistic excesses of culteranismo and in defending what he perceived as a "pure" form of Castilian poetry writing, untouched by the esthetic begun by Luis de Gongora and continued by his many imitators, in spite of the fact that culteranismo had by then become established. In engaging the topic of poetry within this poem, Lope evinces a sense of linguistic nationalism while displaying his own literary pride in avoiding such trends and in having had a highly prolific literary career. In addition, Lope uses this Egloga as a means of self-promotion and ethical speculation on a problem he faced at the time from other poets, that of plagiarism and the question of originality. Finally, the poem is an exploration of other related topics, such as understanding the roots of poetic inspiration, and the distinction between natural talent and the formal study of poetry writing. In sum, the Egloga is at once a tool for literary criticism and self-validation, a weapon specifically targeting culteranismo and any poetry (and poets) Lope considers inferior, and a method of setting standards in both discursive and general human behavior.
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