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An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain
Adrienne Las Martin
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Description for An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain
Paperback. By utilizing theories of deviance, sexuality, and gender, the rhetoric of eroticism, and textual criticism, this work historicizes and analyzes the particular ways in which classical Spanish writers assign symbolic meaning to non-normative sexual practices and their practitioners. Num Pages: 272 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
Early modern Spanish literature is remarkably rich in erotic texts that conventionally chaste critical traditions have willfully disregarded or repudiated as inferior or unworthy of study. Nonetheless, eroticism is a lightning rod for defining mentalities and social, intellectual, and literary history within the nascent field that the author calls erotic philology. ""An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain"" takes sexuality and eroticism out of the historical closet, placing them at the forefront of early modern humanistic studies. By utilizing theories of deviance, sexuality, and gender, the rhetoric of eroticism, and textual criticism, ""An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain"" historicizes ... Read more
Early modern Spanish literature is remarkably rich in erotic texts that conventionally chaste critical traditions have willfully disregarded or repudiated as inferior or unworthy of study. Nonetheless, eroticism is a lightning rod for defining mentalities and social, intellectual, and literary history within the nascent field that the author calls erotic philology. ""An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain"" takes sexuality and eroticism out of the historical closet, placing them at the forefront of early modern humanistic studies. By utilizing theories of deviance, sexuality, and gender, the rhetoric of eroticism, and textual criticism, ""An Erotic Philology of Golden Age Spain"" historicizes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515797
SKU
V9780826515797
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About Adrienne Las Martin
Adrienne Laskier Martin is a professor of Spanish literature at the University of California, Davis, where she teaches Golden Age poetry, prose, theater, and performance. She has published extensively in Spain, Latin America, and the United States on a variety of topics and genres in Golden Age literature, including Cervantes, Gongora, humor, sexuality, eroticism, and women's lyric.
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