Arranca de Dafne sin piedad los brazos

Holloway, A. (2009) Arranca de Dafne sin piedad los brazos. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 86(6), pp. 853-865.

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. In 1993 Manuel Ángel Candelas Colodrón advanced the possibility that Francisco de Quevedo's Farmaceutria o medicamentos enamorados, also known as the ' silva sexta', might be considered an eclogue, a form not typically associated with the poet's amorous verse. Soledad Pérez-Abadín Barro's recent study (2008) makes a convincing case for the poem's inclusion in a subgenre of the eclogue, the pharmaceutria, present in neo-Latin and Spanish Renaissance pastoral poetry, of which Theocritus, Idyll II, and Virgil, Eclogue VIII, are the foundational texts. A defining feature of these poems is a recourse to the supernatural. The troubling incantations of the speakers of these classical poems function within an amorous context and are aimed at reawakening a consuming passion. The spell of Alphesiboeus, for instance, in Virgil's eighth eclogue (1999), is an imitation of the second Theocritean Idyll, wherein Simaetha becomes suspicious that her lover, Delphis, has been unfaithful, and resorts to magic. 1 The bucolic artifice is a fundamental component of the Renaissance legacy which Quevedo contests in his confrontational amorous poetics. And yet the pastoral is a facet of his poetic voice which has been largely absent from critical discussions. In pursuit of a term to encapsulate the corrosive voice of Quevedo's love poetry Alonso (1962) advanced 'desgarrón afectivo', variously translated as 'affective boldness' or 'ripping apart'. Olivares' analysis of quevedesque love poetry (1983) categorizes the poet's documentation of the destructive power of unrequited adoration and the pain of the beloved's disdain as an expression of a more widespread, societal desengaño

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Holloway, Dr Anne
• Authors: Holloway, A.
• Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Hispanic Studies
• Journal Name: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
• ISSN: 1475-3839

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