Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Melancholy and Masculinist Poetics in Early
Modern Spanish Lyric
1. The Gendering of Lyric and Epic in Alonso de Ercilla's La
Araucana (1569-1590)
2. The Apollonian and Orphic Masculinity of Fernando de Herrera's
Algunas obras (1582)
3. Feminine Voice and Masculinist Aims in Miguel de Cervantes's
La Galatea (1585)
4. Between Liuvigild and Ingund in Juan de Arguijo's Versos
(1612)
5. "El melancolico vacio": The Origins and Fate of Lyric according
to Luis de Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea and
Soledades (1612-1617)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Felipe Valencia is an assistant professor of Spanish at Utah
State University.
"Just for the wealth of lyric literary history discussed,
Valencia's monograph is a valuable reference for students of
early-modern Spain. The book convincingly demonstrates the links
between lyric expression, melancholic subjectivity, and gender
violence in early-modern lyric poetry. Its denunciation of gender
violence in early-modern poetry helps open the door to necessary
but difficult discussions about the harmful legacies of
arch-canonical poets and the lyric poetic tradition more generally.
The study of early-modern poetry in Spain will no doubt be better
off for having the reckoning with gender violence proposed by
The Melancholy Void."-Luis Rodriguez-Rincon, Caliope:
Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic
Poetry
"The Melancholy Void presents a trove of interpretive and
scholarly riches . . . this book represents an important addition
to the study of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century poetry. It will,
no doubt, provides much food for thought and debate."-Maria
Cristina Quintero, Hispanic Review
"The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of
Gongora provides valuable critical insights into literary
theory, the concept of melancholy, and masculine versus feminine
violence as focal points of Ealy Modern Spanish
literature."-Salvatore Poeta, Hispania
"[The Melancholy Void is] a powerful and excellent study
that suggests a viable route to see beyond longstanding critical
approaches to the history and theory of la nueva poesia in
early modern Spain and, more broadly, the history and theory of
lyric poetry."-Andres Olmedo Orejuela, Comitatus: A Journal of
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
"This is a terrific piece of scholarship that delves into the
period of one of Spain's most important authors, Luis de Gongora.
Felipe Valencia offers a fascinating genealogy of the lyric
tradition, grounding it in a dazzling array of deep readings of
primary texts, together with an insightful application of
theoretical and critical secondary material."-Mary B. Quinn,
associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of
New Mexico
"An innovative way of looking at this important corpus of texts,
shedding new light on crucial matters such as the ties between
poetics, philosophy, affect, and rhetoric. The astute interlacement
between poetic theory and melancholy as a way of understanding the
masculine rhetoric present in the texts studied is convincing and
insightful."-Rodrigo Cacho, faculty of modern and medieval
languages at the University of Cambridge
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