Violence and the Trajectory of Early Modern Subjection inLazarillo de Tormes,Fuenteovejuna, and theSoledades
| Autor: | Crystal Chemris |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 64:105-125 |
| ISSN: | 1931-0676 0039-7709 |
| Popis: | Francis Barker's work, The Tremulous Private Body, provides a useful theoretical framework for the examination of violence and subjection in three canonical texts of Spanish Golden Age literature: the anonymously written picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes; Lope de Vega's play, Fuenteovejuna; and Luis de Gongora's long lyric poem, the Soledades. While Fuenteovejuna affirms hegemony by incorporating the rebellion of peasants and women, the Soledades does so obliquely by incorporating the critique of the agrarian aristocracy who were Gongora's patrons. In contrast, the Lazarillo stands out as the most radical of the three in its subversion of the official discourse of church and state. All are contradictory works of transition that depict a common violence toward the body—the violence toward the older sacramental body that Barker saw as a marker for the development of early modern subjectivity—and anticipate creatively both the birth of the modern subject and its negation. |
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