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"From Musaeus to Parnassus: Poetry, Modernity and Method in the Seventeenth Century"

Middlebrook, Leah (Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, 2013)

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 ...
The Poetics of Modern Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Middlebrook, Leah (Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies U Toronto, 2010)

For many writers, politicians and courtiers in early modern Spain, to raise the topic of poetry was to raise the topic of masculinity. In Spain, the sixteenth century marks a particular threshold – we might consider it the ...
Poetry and the Persiles: Cervantes' Orphic Mode

Middlebrook, Leah (eHumanista/Cervantes, 2017)

The topic ‘Cervantes and poetry’ has given rise to a great deal of criticism, much of it shaped by tantalizing moments in which Cervantes appears to have commented on his skills with rueful self-knowledge – for example, ...
Review - Huir Procuro el Encarecimiento

Middlebrook, Leah (Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2014)

Review of a collection of essays on the important sixteenth-century Spanish poet, translator and aristocrat Hernando de Acuña
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: An Artistic Inquiry

Senatori, Isabella (University of Oregon, 2023-05)

This thesis offers a two-pronged inquiry into the work of seventeenth-century nun and polymath Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695). I explore Sor Juana as a gendered writer through two disciplines: literary criticism and ...
The Conundrums of Narrative: Cervantes in the Context of the Crónicas de Indias

Rius, Antonio (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

My intellectual interests span the Atlantic and are anchored in early modern narrative. Balancing original research, literary analysis and humanist literary criticism, my dissertation, “The Conundrums of Narrative: Cervantes ...
The Love De Una Madre: A Play on Bilingualism in American Theatre

Corral, Fausto (University of Oregon, 2023)

Bilingual Theatre is the art of theatre where two languages, two cultures, and two communities are bridged together on stage. This thesis delves into the challenges and realities of creating a bilingual piece of theatre, ...
The Significance of Black Women to Early Modern Iberian Literature

Tweede, Cornesha (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

Chapter 1 is a thorough literary review and further discussion of the field and how Black women characters are conventionally perceived to discuss my own “second look” and my reading practices. The introduction also provides ...