Julián Olivares 
Studies on Women’s Poetry of the Golden Age [PDF ebook] 
Tras el espejo la musa escribe

Women’s poetry of the Spanish early modern period.


This collection of fourteen scholarly essays on women’s poetry from Spain’s early modern period shows that women did indeed have a Golden Age, and that they were significant cultural actors in the realms of poetic production. Thestudies of secular verse demonstrate how female poets of this period devised strategies to confront the dominant masculine poetic discourse, while the essays on sacred poetry explore the multiple manifestations of female piety andmysticism. The women’s words are brought to life and modern readers helped to understand the socio-cultural, interpersonal, and aesthetic components of the poets’ oeuvre. The volume, a companion to Julián Olivares’ and Elizabeth Boyce’s revised anthology
‘Tras el espejo la musa escribe’: Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro, constitutes an authoritative critical enterprise focused on the recuperation of the female literary voice, and marks an important step forward in the battle to include women’s writing as part of Spain’s literary canon.

Contributors: Electa Arenal, Aránzazu Borrachero Mendíbil, Anne J. Cruz, Adrienne L. Martin, Rosa Navarro Durán, Julián Olivares, Inmaculada Osuna, Amanda Powell, Elizabeth Rhodes, Stacey Schlau, Lía Schwartz, Alison Weber, Judith Whitenack.


JULIAN OLIVARES is Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston and editor of
Calíope, Journal ofthe Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.

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Foreword: el arte de la dificultad en la lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro – Rosa Navarro Durán

Introduction – Julián Olivares

Vir melancholicus/femina tristis: Towards a Poetics of Women’s Loss – Julián Olivares

‘Oh qué diversas estamos, /dulce prenda, vos y yo!’ Multiple Voicings in Love Poerms to Women by Marcia Belisarda, Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán, and Sor Violante del Cielo Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán, – Amanda Powell

El autorretrato en la poesía de Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán – Aránzazu Borrachero

Female Burlesque and the Everyday – Adrienne L. Martín

Cristobalina Fernández de Alarcón y la poesía de circunstancias – Inmaculada Osuna Rodríguez

Poems by Cristobalina Fernández de Alarcón in Two Famous Baroque Anthologies: Primera y segunda parte de las
Flores ilustres de España – Lia Schwartz

Ana Abarca de Bolea: ‘Los lucimientos de las mujeres’ – Judith A Whitenack

Could Women Write Mystical Poetry? The Literary Daughters of Juan de la Cruz – Alison Weber

Gender in the Night: Juan de la Cruz and Cecilia del Nacimiento – Elizabeth Rhodes

María de San Alberto: Bridging Popular and ‘High’ Spanish Poetic Traditions through the Sacred – Stacey Schlau

Sex and Class in the Seventeenth-century Cloister: Sor Marcela de San Felix’s Love Poems to God – Electa Arenal

Words Made Flesh: Luisa de Carvajal’s Eucharistic Poetry – Anne J Cruz

Afterword – Julián Olivares

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