"From Musaeus to Parnassus: Poetry, Modernity and Method in the Seventeenth Century"
| dc.contributor.author | Middlebrook, Leah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-02T15:17:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-02T15:17:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The narrative of a “new” mindset that dispenses with the mythopoetic in favor of the intellect is a foundational myth of modernity. Perhaps that is not surprising, given the powerful constitutive role which moderns attribute to the other; the “poetic,” perennially cast as the other of the modern, exercises its greatest generative force --the force of poiesis, with which the terms poesía and poema are associated in so many treatises-- within the modern imagination. This essay focuses on iterations of the modern origin story as I trace the stages by which primordial powers associated with poetry are deployed to anchor a “new” modernity in Spain and the Americas. I will also demonstrate that by the late baroque, poetry loses that power as modern institutions gain primacy over poetic energies. It is my contention here that for late-sixteenth and early seventeenth-century writers, the narrative of poetry’s subordination exercised a certain kind of daemonic force that was drawn from associations with prophecy and the divine that were invoked as much as they were suppressed, subordinated or excluded in their accounts. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Middlebrook, Leah. “From Museaus to Parnassus: Poetry, Modernity and Method in the Seventeenth Century.” Calíope: The Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. 18.1 (2013). 26-42. Print. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/20060 | |
| dc.publisher | Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Orpheus | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lyric | |
| dc.subject | Poetry | en_US |
| dc.subject | Modernity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Early Modern Spain | en_US |
| dc.subject | Poetics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Amphion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Caramuel | en_US |
| dc.subject | Horace | en_US |
| dc.subject | Carvallo | en_US |
| dc.subject | Acuna | en_US |
| dc.title | "From Musaeus to Parnassus: Poetry, Modernity and Method in the Seventeenth Century" | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |