Writing in the Margin

Spanish Literature of the Golden Age

By: Paul Julian Smith

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Hardcover | 3 March 1988

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This book, the first study of its kind to adopt a post-structuralist viewpoint, offers new readings of the major texts of the Spanish Renaissance, or Golden Age. Beginning with a comparison of Renaissance and modern theories of discourse, the main substance of the book appeals to terms borrowed from Jacques Derrida for the analysis of the three most important genres of the period: lyric poetry, picaresque narrative, and drama. Authors discussed include Gongora, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Calderon, and Cervantes, the popularity of Don Quijote being attributed to its (apparent) repression of characteristics common to other Golden Age texts. In the conclusion it is suggested that Spain itself is the place of marginality, the supplement to a Europe which cannot admit it but dare not exclude it. Writing in the Margin is addressed to all specialists in Spanish literature and in the comparative literature of the Renaissance. There are translations of the Spanish quotations.

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`a trail blazer ... intelligent, often brilliant' Peter N. Dunn, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 'Smith's work is just about the best thing which has happened in Spanish studies for a long time ... I think it's a splendid book which is going to make a lot of difference to the study of Golden Age literature and which already makes a lot of existing criticism seem very old-fashioned.' Arthur Terry, University of Essex

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The she-bear licks its cub: an emblem of the artistic process
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction: Rereading The Golden Age	p. 1
The Rhetoric Of Excess In Golden Age Theory	p. 19
The Spanish Difference	p. 19
Language and Vision: El dialogo de la lengua	p. 30
The Rhetoric Of Presence In Lyric Poetry	p. 43
Presence and Communication	p. 43
Garcilaso and Voice	p. 49
Herrera and Amplification	p. 57
Gongora and Absence	p. 64
Lyric as Supplement	p. 72
The Rhetoric Of Representation In Picaresque Narrative	p. 78
Pictorialism and Representation	p. 78
Lazarillo and Subjectivity	p. 89
Guzman de Alfarache and Writing	p. 99
The Buscon and Politics	p. 110
Picaresque and Parergon	p. 119
The Rhetoric Of Inscription In The Comedia	p. 127
Inscription and Prescription	p. 127
Lope and Nature	p. 134
Tirso and Desire	p. 144
Calderon and Honour	p. 156
Drama as Trace	p. 166
The Erasure Of Rhetoric In Cervantes	p. 172
Simplicity, Authority, Language	p. 172
Knowledge and Ignorance: El licenciado vidriera	p. 185
Conclusion: The Marginality Of Spanish Culture	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 217
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