Virtuous Labor, Courtly Laborer: Canonization and a Literary Career in Lope de Vega's Isidro
In the course of one of early modern Europe's longest and most prolific literary careers, Lope de Vega (1562-1635) wrote numerous hagiographies, typically upon commission from a city council, an aristocrat, or a court official. Yet his saints' lives have received far less critical attention than his cloak-and-dagger comedias or his love lyrics.' Scholars, in general, have emphasized questions about how creative authorial energies shaped or altered literary forms that enjoy high prestige in our own time. Lope's arte nuevo that transformed the comedia de capa y espada fits this preference, while his numerous hagiographies represent a now marginal literary form. Moreover, the devotional works written on commission highlight Lope as a writer whose pen bolstered or depended upon political and religious
Lope de Vega’s “Alcides Nueuo” and Satan’s Sect: A Case for Local Readings
Alcides nueuo, en cuyos ombros tiernos, Mientras descansa el gran Filipo Atlante, Cargan dos mundos, porque sois bastante,. Si los huuiera, para mas gouiernos. Objeto de los cielos sempiternos, Como el espejo al Sol, luz en diamante, Iupiter Espanol, Cesar Infante, Mas digno de viuir siglos eternos. Aqui, donde mi Isidro fue nacido, Nacistes vos, tan bien auenturado, Quanto deueis de estarle agradecido. Vuestros antecessores le han honrado, Ya Reyna en Dios, si Labrador ha sido, Iuntad el cetro a su diuino aradp.
The politics of affect and emotion in contemporary Latin American cinema : Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico
Between Neo-realist Sentimentality and Modernist Shock: New Latin American Cinema and Beyond Thrilling Histories: Questions of Genre and History Affecting Legacies: Contemporary Structures of Feeling Alien/Nation: Contemporary Youth in Film Emotional Investments: Global Networks and Transnational Affective Communities