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Middlebrook, Leah |
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2016-09-02T15:17:25Z |
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2016-09-02T15:17:25Z |
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2013 |
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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. |
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http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20060 |
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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. |
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Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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Orpheus |
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Lyric |
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Poetry |
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Modernity |
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Early Modern Spain |
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Poetics |
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Amphion |
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Caramuel |
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Horace |
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Carvallo |
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Acuna |
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dc.title |
"From Musaeus to Parnassus: Poetry, Modernity and Method in the Seventeenth Century" |
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dc.type |
Article |
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