Reading from the Margins in Gongora's Soledades
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10609938 |
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| Authors | Maria Robertson-Justiniano (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 252-269 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mln.2004.0096 |
| OpenAlex | W2018409228 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
As a consequence of the dynamic perspective that characterizes the poetic landscape of the Soledades, many critics have had difficulty pinning down the actual "theme" of Góngora's cryptic poem.1 Initially, Góngora establishes a striking dichotomy between the pastoral world's simplicity and the court's ornate designs embodied by the modern architecture that defines it. The neatness of the dichotomy has led many critics to reduce the theme of the elaborate poem to a conventional restatement of the town-country contrast familiar in Classical and Renaissance poetry.2 However, there are a group of critics who challenge this definition of the poem and argue the antithesis, by suggesting that Góngora's poem—rather than revealing the differences between the pastoral and courtly worlds—sets out to expose the similarities between the two. [End Page 252]
Antithesis · Art · Close reading · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Poetry · Reading (process) · Simplicity · Theme (computing) · Visual arts · Computer Science · Early Modern Spanish Literature · History · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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