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Goodbye Eros
Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes
Ana Laguna (Edited by), John Beusterien (Edited by)
9781487504212
Hardback, published 9 April 2020
350 pages, 17 b&w illustrations
23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.55 kg
"In looking back on Cervantine cultural criticism, we find that there is an unspoken invitation to consider how our current generation of Cervantistas will be evaluated by scholars later in the twenty-first century. In the meantime, we can appreciate the creative and innovative approaches in Goodbye Eros, knowing that these erudite essays will surely inspire similarly provocative work in the future." "The chapters gathered in Goodbye Eros: Recasting Forms and Norms of Love in the Age of Cervantes contribute a fresh approach to the critical dialogue as they highlight still contested issues pertaining to race, religion, politics, ethics, and sexuality, and further illustrate Cervantes’ universal and timeless relevance."
Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses of love and make them compelling again? This volume explores how Spanish letters recognized that old love paradigms, especially the crisis of the subject, presented an extraordinary opportunity for revising traditional literary strictures. As a result, during Spain’s nascent modernity, literature took up the challenge to expand existing forms of desire and subjectivity. A range of scholars show how canonical and non-canonical Golden Age writers like Miguel de Cervantes, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Lope de Vega, and Francisco de la Torre y Sevil became equal agents of the sweeping ontological reconfiguration of the idea of eros that defined their culture. Such reconfiguration includes: the troubling displacement of "self" and "other" seen in sentimental genres like the pastoral or romance; the overlapping of emotions such as love and jealousy characteristic of the baroque lyric and dramatic production; and the conflation of axioms such as eros and eris prevalent in contemporaneous epic experiments. In uniting the findings of often surprising texts, the collection of essays in Goodbye Eros takes a pioneering look at how Golden Age moral, ideological, scientific, and literary discourses intersected to create fascinating re-elaborations of the trope of love.
Introduction: Eros in the Age of Cervantes Part I. Amorous Optics: Reframing Perception, Gender Subjectivity, and Genre Convention 1. Egocentricity versus Persuasion: Eros, Logos, and Pathos in Cervantes’s Marcela and Grisóstomo Episode 2. The Deceived Gaze: Visual Fantasy, Art, and Feminine Adultery in Cervantes’s Reading of Ariosto Part II. Reasoning the Unreasonable: Towards a Rationale of Love 3. El Greco and Cervantes’s Euclidean Theologies 4. Love and the Laws of Literature: The Ethics and Poetics of Affect in Cervantes’s "The Little Gypsy Girl" 5. Eros and Ethos in the Political and Religious Logos of The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: The Anomic Character in Cervantes Part III: Kissing between the Lines: Blurring Sexual and Racial Norms 6. Sexy Beasts: Women and their Lapdogs in Baroque Satirical Verse 7. Sexual Deviance and Morisco Marginality in Cervantes’s The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda 8. The Black Madonna Icon: Race, Rape, and the Virgin of Montserrat in The Confession with the Devil by Francisco de Torre y Sevil Part IV: Recasting Erotic and Heroic Molds 9. For Love of the White Sea: The Curious Identity of Uludj Ali 10. Writing a Tragic Image: Eros and Eris in Lope de Vega’s Jerusalem Conquered 11. The Un-Romantic Approach to Don Quixote: Cervantine Love in the Spanish, Post-War Age Notes
Ana Maria Laguna, Rutgers University and John Beusterien, Texas Tech University
Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College and Ana Maria Laguna, Rutgers University
Mercedes Alcalá Galán, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eric Clifford Graf, Francisco Marroquin University
Eli Cohen, Swarthmore College
Jesús Maestro, University of Oviedo
Adrienne Martin, University of California, Santa Cruz
Christina Lee, Princeton University
John Beusterien, Texas Tech University
Diana de Armas Wilson, University of Denver
Jason McCloskey, Bucknell University
Ana Maria Laguna, Rutgers University
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