Góngora O la Invención De Una Lengua
2014; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 91; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1478-3398
Autores Tópico(s)Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism
ResumoMERCEDES BLANCO, Gongora o la invencion de una lengua. Leon: Universidad de Leon. 2012. 518 pp. ISBN 978-84-9773-613-8.Gongora o la invencion de una lengua is probably one of the most ambitious books on Gongora published since Damaso Alonso's La lengua poetica de Gongora (1935) and Robert Jammes's Etudes sur l'oeuvre poetique de don Luis de Gongora y Argote (1967). Blanco has recently authored another work on the Soledades -Gongora heroico (2012) -, but in this case she takes a wider approach focusing on a larger corpus of texts of the Spanish poet, establishing the nature of his originality in terms both of poetics and style. This monograph follows in the steps of Blanco's Les Rhetoriques de la pointe (1992) where she analysed the theory of European conceptism. The present monograph uses this as a stepping stone, applying its approach to Gongora, who is regarded as 'el compendio de la poetica del concepto' (85).The theoretical framework is clearly established in the introductory chapter (11-63) where, alongside Gracian and other contemporary sources, Blanco highlights the importance of the idea of the sublim e - as presented by Pseudo-Longinus - in the development of the seventeenth-century art of wit. This introduces a new element into the discussion concerning Baroque poetics, especially since previous scholarship usually took it for granted that On the Sublime did not have a major impact in Europe until Boileau's French translation (1674). According to Blanco, instead, Gongora's works have to be located between two poles of reference: the art of wit and the art of the sublime. His poetry seeks not only to engage readers intellectually but also to elicit their admiration, leading them to experience new emotions thanks to the proliferation of sublime images. This approach opens up new avenues to the understanding of Gongora and the Baroque.Blanco's book is organized into two sections. The first one (65-292) applies her new theory of seventeenth-century poetics to several works of Gongora, including his play Las firmezas de Isabela. In these pages the sophistication of the theoretical framework is matched by a series of elaborated and in-depth close readings that offer an interdisciplinary approach, establishing links with works of art, architecture, philosophical debates, political questions and Gongora's biography. The Spanish poet is read against the backdrop of a vast mosaic of literary models such as Homer, Ovid, Martial, Politian, Ariosto and Marino. The erudition and insight of these analyses is impressive. …
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