Dreams of Waking: An Anthology of Iberian Lyric Poetry, 1400-1700 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 022601133X ISBN 13: 9780226011332

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2013

Synopsis

In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about language, geography, and identity in order to be understood properly. More and more, scholars and students are recognizing the limitations of single-language, nationalist, and period-bound canons and are looking for different ways to approach the study of literature. The Iberian Peninsula is an excellent site for this approach, where the history and politics of the region, along with its creative literature, need to be read and studied together with the way the works were composed by poets and eventually consumed by readers.

With a generous selection of more than one hundred poems from thirty-three poets, Dreams of Waking is unique in its coverage of the three main languages—Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish—and lyrical styles employed by peninsular poets. It contains new translations of canonical poems but also translations of many poems that have never before been edited or translated. Brief headnotes provide essential details of the poets’ lives, and a general introduction by the volume editors shows how the poems and languages fruitfully intersect. With helpful annotations to the poetry, as well as a selected bibliography containing the most important editions and translations from all three of the main Iberian languages, this volume will be an indispensable tool for both specialists and students in comparative literature.

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About the Author

Vincent Barletta is associate professor of Iberian and Latin American cultures at Stanford University. Mark L. Bajus and Cici Malik are PhD candidates in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022601133X
• ISBN 13: 9780226011332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 429
• Editor: Barletta Vincent, Bajus Mark L., Malik Cici