'La gran dolor que llengua no pot dir' : ausiàs March and the poetics of private pain
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The present dissertation explores how the poetry of Ausiàs March (1400-1459) problematizes the view of fifteenth-century Iberian literature as part of a linear transition from the medieval to the early modern period. More specifically, I examine notions of body, pain, and subjectivity that emerge in the lyric poetry of the late medieval Crown of Aragon and trace their trajectory through the 128 cants of the Valencian poet and into the literary milieu of sixteenth-century Castile. I argue that the unique way in which March draws upon so-called medieval tropes and source material, the way his poetics theorize on the essence of private pain before pain was private, paradoxically fashions what so many scholars point to as his strikingly modern, subjectively emotional "self." Focusing on the themes of language, love, community, and pleasure and pain, my first chapter excavates March's complicated relationship with his troubadour predecessors, focusing on what he takes from the Provençal tradition and what he abandons. In the second chapter, I examine the work of Giorgio Agamben, David Bakan, Ariel Glucklich, and Elaine Scarry to offer a new reading of March's verses that focuses on his treatment of bodily pain and what it implies vis-à-vis theories of the self. Chapter three is a close comparative analysis of March's original cants and their most widely disseminated sixteenth-century Castilian translation, that of the Portuguese Jorge de Montemayor (1560); in this final chapter, I pay special attention to the ways in which Montemayor transforms and even eliminates March's frequent presentation of the poetic self, the body, and pain. By situating my study within a trans-linguistic (and trans-national) framework, I am able to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of textual constructions of subjectivity and experience in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Iberia.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Malik, Cici |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Barletta, Vincent |
| Thesis advisor | Barletta, Vincent |
| Thesis advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
| Advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Advisor | Resina, Joan Ramon |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Cici Malik. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2015 by Cynthia Joan Malik
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