{"product_id":"the-melancholy-void-felipe-valencia-9781496221148","title":"The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Ggora","description":"At the turn of the seventeenth century, Spanish lyric underwent a notable development. Several Spanish poets reinvented lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sang of and perpetrated symbolic violence against the female beloved. This shift emerged in response to the rising prestige and commercial success of the epic and was enabled by the rich discourse on the link between melancholy and creativity in men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Melancholy Void\u003c\/i\u003e Felipe Valencia examines this reconstruction of the lyric in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620. Through a study of canonical and influential texts, such as the major poems by Luis de Ggora and the epic of Alonso de Ercilla, but also lesser-known texts, such as the lyrics by Miguel de Cervantes, \u003ci\u003eThe Melancholy Void\u003c\/i\u003e addresses four understudied problems in the scholarship of early modern Spanish poetry: the use of gender violence in love poetry as a way to construct the masculinity of the poetic speaker; the exploration in Spanish poetry of the link between melancholy and male creativity; the impact of epic on Spanish lyric; and the Spanish contribution to the fledgling theory of the lyric. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Melancholy Void\u003c\/i\u003e brings poetry and lyric theory to the conversation in full force and develops a distinct argument about the integral role of gender violence in a prominent strand of early modern Spanish lyric that ran from Garcilaso to Ggora and beyond. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Felipe Valencia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496221141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496221148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d","brand":"Felipe Valencia","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993506676991,"sku":"9781496221148","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6897c6a-e484-4565-b8ad-01bde5d79ed0.jpg?v=1683324711","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-melancholy-void-felipe-valencia-9781496221148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}