"Aspectos de la temporalidad en la poesía de Quevedo," by Francesco Tarelli

"Aspectos de la temporalidad en la poesía de Quevedo," by Francesco Tarelli

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Aspectos de la temporalidad en la poesía de Quevedo by Francesco Tarelli (Arkansas State University).

Temporality represents the "protagonist of the drama of the Baroque"—as Emilio Orozco Diaz points out—and in Spanish Golden Age literature, the most eloquent poetic voice of such a drama is that of Francisco de Quevedo. This monograph analyzes temporal imagery and metaphors in selected poems by Quevedo, employing an hermeneutic approach that encompasses a wide range of disciplines such as philosophy, theology, iconology, emblem literature, music, and painting.

The first chapter presents a survey of the philosophical development of the concept of time from the Presocratics to Francisco Suarez (1580-1617), which is followed by  an outline of the fundamental characteristics of the Baroque Age concerning time.

The second chapter situates the figure of Quevedo within the context of both the historical decadence of Spain and  the writer's intellectual background, with a central  focus on poetry. The first poems comprise three silvas on timepieces—namely the  hourglass, the sundial, and a mechanical clock with chimes—that express the  conflict  between objective time and its inner perception; a quintilla and a sonnet on  the ashes of dead lovers contained in an horologium pulvereum, and a burlesque sonnet on the clock and the lamp together, a pictorial poem using chiaroscuro effects. Except for an idilio on the carpe diem, and  another romance on time itself, which the poet mocks, the following poems belong to the satiric-burlesque group according to Blecua's classification. They  include a long poem (192 lines) on the mudanzas, that is, the changes produced by time and the steps executed during the performance of aristocratic and  popular dances, which is analyzed in its entirety for the first time; a romance dedicated to the towers of Joray and its powerful message  on the  havoc of time, and finally, a sonnet describing the miseries of human life from birth to death.

The final chapter examines three metaphysical poems, a moral sonnet, and a Salmo  from the Herdclito cristiano, and focuses on Quevedo's anguished expression of the  temps vecu. The author presents a novel interpretation of the famous sonnet beginning with the line "¡Ah  de !a vida!...  ¿Nadie me responde?" in the light of the Thomistic metaphysical distinction between things and  being.

This book is written in Spanish.

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ISBN: 978-1-58871-204-2 (PB, 271 pp.) $35