Lope de Vega as a Courtly Writer: La Filomena (1621) and La Circe (1624)
| Responsable du projet | Antonio Sánchez Jiménez |
| Résumé |
This project investigates how Lope de Vega adapted his literary
style and career after Philip IV became king of Spain and the
cultista revolution consolidated itself. This style can be best
observed in the two books that Lope prepared for the beginning of
Philip’s reign, La Filomena (1621) and La Circe (1624), and that
will be the corpus for our work. While critics have examined them
separately, or considered some of their individual parts, our
project will study them as a concerted effort, as the books
themselves invite to do through a series of cross-references and
common interests. When analyzed as an ensemble, the two books
reveal themselves as the keystones of an ambitious project: a
proposal for a courtly style distinctive from the cultista poetry
that was in vogue at the moment. In particular, we argue that in La
Filomena and La Circe Lope sought a new sort of courtly elegance and
distinction based on four aspects, some of which partly coincided
with the current Gongoresque fashion [Cossío, 1952: 340]
and some that self-consciously departed from it. In particular, we
will show that Lope created a new courtly style by combining four
features that were meant to give the books an air of exclusivity
and courtliness |
| Mots-clés |
Lope de Vega; courtly literature; golden Age Spanish poetry |
| Type de projet | Mandat de recherche |
| Domaine de recherche | Littérature |
| Source de financement | Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique |
| Etat | Terminé |
| Début de projet | 1-9-2017 |
| Fin du projet | 31-1-2020 |
| Budget alloué | 246977 |
| Contact | Antonio Sánchez Jiménez |