Prisiones textuales. Artificio y violencia enla poesía española del barroco

In search of a new artificial language, Góngora tries to retrieve by poetic means a similarity between words and things. Thus, in his sonnet "Prisión del nácar era articulado" (1620), in which artifice and violence are correlated, artificiality of the description itself corresponds to arti...

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Main Author: Wolfram Nitsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de La Plata 2004-11-01
Series:Olivar: Revista de Literatura y Cultura Españolas
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Online Access:http://www.olivar.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/article/view/3368
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Summary:In search of a new artificial language, Góngora tries to retrieve by poetic means a similarity between words and things. Thus, in his sonnet "Prisión del nácar era articulado" (1620), in which artifice and violence are correlated, artificiality of the description itself corresponds to artificiality of the beauty that is described. Gongorine techniques have here a mimologic function, by which the text seems to make visible and audible a violence that has always been underlying the lyric praise of the mistress. Her "hyper-precious" image ows its outstanding beauty to masculine compelling action. This feature is reworked by other baroque poets such as Quevedo.
ISSN:1515-1115
1852-4478