From Scipio to Nero to the Self: The Exemplary Politics of Stoicism in Garcilaso de la Vega's Elegies
| Autor: | E. C. Graf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Self 05 social sciences Vega 0507 social and economic geography Art 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies 050701 cultural studies Language and Linguistics Stoicism Politics 0602 languages and literature Classics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 116:1316-1333 |
| ISSN: | 1938-1530 0030-8129 |
| DOI: | 10.1632/s0030812900113355 |
| Popis: | What is the relation between the early modern lyric and the emergence of modern individuality? Garcilaso de la Vega's verse from early-sixteenth-century Hapsburg Spain is generally assessed in terms of Petrarchan protocols. But the emotive effects of love fictions and pastoral nostalgia provide an incomplete aesthetic picture. Garcilaso's poetry also concerns modern power relations; some of his most impressive tropes allude to contemporary politics. This essay argues that Garcilaso's most experimental and self-assertive verse manifests the political animus of the Toledan nobility. On the ideological fault line between the municipal capitalists of the comunero revolution (1520–21) and the combined forces of the Hapsburg imperialists and the great landed aristrocracy, Garcilaso's “ultramoderate” lyric production problematizes the imperialist-aristocratic coalition by demystifying the official interpretations of recent events as divinely ordered repetitions of classical history. The peculiar self-referential implosion of the second elegy suggests that the emergence of modern individuality occurs in response to imperialist tyranny. |
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