Escape from the Prison of Love

Caloric Identities and Writing Subjects in Fifteenth-Century Spain

By:

Robert Folger

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Paperback / softback

Series:

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

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This title is about transforming medieval sentimental romance. ""Escape from the Prison of Love"" is an exploration of medieval modes of subject constitution and their transformation in fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental romance, with a particular focus on Diego de San Pedro's ""Carcel de amor"". Drawing on premodern psychological models, Robert Folger argues that courtly self-fashioning through amatory performance provided an alternative and threat to the medieval gradual build-up of the self through hexis and habitus. In the light of the unsettling gender implications for the courtly lover, says Folger, the authors of sentimental fiction explored new ways of subject constitution based not on passionate attachment but on identification. ""Carcel de amor"" shows how new forms of writing and reading techniques and authorship provided an avenue for a new notion of interiority that was essential to the Golden Age of Spanish literature.

Author Biography:

Robert Folger is chair of Spanish Literature and Culture at Utrecht University. He is author of Images in Mind: Lovesickness, Spanish Sentimental Fiction, and Don Quijote.

Release date NZ

January 30th, 2009

Author

Robert Folger

Audience

Further/Higher Education

Edition

New edition

Pages

188

Series

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780807892961

Product ID

3592045

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