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Escape from the Prison of Love: Caloric Identities and Writing Subjects in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Escape from the Prison of Love: Caloric Identities and Writing Subjects in Fifteenth-Century Spain

Folger, Robert

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Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 292

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807892963
ISBN13: 9780807892961
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: Jan 1 2009
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Escape from the Prison of Love is an exploration of medieval modes of subject constitution and their transformation in fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental romance, with a particular focus on Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de amor.

Drawing on premodern psychological models, Robert Folger argues that courtly self-fashioning through amatory performance provided an alternative and threat to the medieval gradual build-up of the self through hexis and habitus. In the light of the unsettling gender implications for the courtly lover, says Folger, the authors of sentimental fiction explored new ways of subject constitution based not on passionate attachment but on identification. Cárcel de amor shows how new forms of writing and reading techniques and authorship provided an avenue for a new notion of interiority that was essential to the Golden Age of Spanish literature.

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