Anne Cruz

• PhD
• University of Miami

Les traductions des Trionfi de Pétrarque au castillan faites au XVIe siècle offrent un moyen d’évaluer l’évolution des attitudes envers la poétique pétrarquiste, la traduction et la langue vernaculaire. Malgré leur style chansonnière, les prémieres traductions des Trionfi par Antonio de Obregón en 1512 et du Trionfo d'amore par Alvar Gómez confirme...

Studies on Spanish Poetry in Honour of Trevor J. Dadson - edited by Javier Letrán November 2019

Les escriptores espanyoles de la primera edat moderna no han rebut l'atenció que calia, en gran part per la manca de documentació. Els esforços recents d'investigadors feministes, però, han trobat més escriptores de les que es coneixien anteriorment. Aquests investigadors s'han dedicat a l'estudi del seu context històric, com ara l'educació i el ni...

Although women protagonists in male-authored Spanish comedias were cast in pivotal roles, they remained as objects for which the male protagonists competed and contended. It has not been until recently that women playwrights have been studied by feminist critics, who have shed light on the reestablishment of the relational union of men and women. N...

Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context? In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been...

Separated by more than half a century, Garcilaso de la Vega and Luis de Góngora chose the lyric genre to interrogate systems of power and the political and cultural changes that occurred from the early sixteenth century to the beginnings of the seventeenth century. Garcilaso's ‘new’ poetry and his conflictive engagement with the emerging Spanish em...

In memory of Elias Rivers, … que buen caballero era. One of the most rewarding literary partnerships in early modern Spain was that of the Catalan Juan Boscán and the Toledo nobleman Garcilaso de la Vega, whose collaboration resulted in the transformation of Spanish poetry. Their complicity in introducing Italianate poetic forms and courtliness int...

In this wide-ranging yet no less rigorously argued study, Carmen Nocentelli proposes that the early modern concepts of sexuality and race proceeded from contextually and historically contingent constructs. Rather than viewing them as parallel categories, she posits that both developed from an extended continuum of interrelated social practices and...

Elias L. Rivers fue un hispanista especializado en el Siglo de Oro español. Era estadounidense y fue docente en universidades de su país. Antes de doctorarse con una tesis sobre Francisco de Aldana, estudió griego y latín y se vio obligado a aprender también mandarín, ya que fue enviado como soldado a la frontera de China con Birmania durante la Se...

The poetry collection published in Madrid in 1725 by the Andalusian poetess Teresa Guerra and approved by the censor and polygraph Diego de Torres y Villaroel, gives proof of women’s literary activity in the first decades of the eighteenth century. Her poems reveal a sensibility liberated from the oppressive ideology of the Baroque that simultaneou...

The poetry collection published in Madrid in 1725 by the Andalusian poetess Teresa Guerra and approved by the censor and polygraph Diego de Torres y Villaroel, gives proof of womens literary activity in thefirst decades ofthe eighteenth century. Her poems reveal a sensibility liberated from the oppressive ideology of the Baroque that simultaneously...

CarriónMaría M., Subject Stages: Marriage, Theatre, and the Law in Early Modern Spain, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Pp. 240. $55.00 (ISBN 978-1-442-64108-2). - Volume 29 Issue 2 - Anne J. Cruz

I was born naked, and to prove that I’ve not fallen for anything nor have myself fallen, but expose the many that have, you see me here naked, which is to say poor, yet so full of virtue that others have taken it from me effortlessly. And though I’ve shared my virtue freely and impulsively, ending up without it, I wasn’t so mindless as not to deman...

The emergence of Spain as a world power in the early sixteenth century compelled a radical change in its language and literature. reflecting the country's global expansion, Spanish culture moved beyond its medieval belatedness to compete with Renaissance Italian culture, whose superiority was based on the humanist rebirth of ancient values. The cul...

This volume presents the story of Hernando Cortés' conquest of Mexico, as recounted by a contemporary Spanish historian and edited by Mexico's premier Nahua historian. Francisco López de Gómara's monumental Historia de las Indias y Conquista de México was published in 1552 to instant success. Despite being banned from the Americas by Prince Philip...

Women's poetry of the Spanish early modern period.

The figure of Dorotea has been criticized both by conventional critics and by feminists for her apparent concession at the end of the narrative to her lover, the nobleman Fernando. His seduction of Dorotea, however, and her reaction to it, alert us to the 'real life' situations that women of the early modern period had to fight C, against. Whether...

When the ill-fated King Pedro demands that the gracioso make him laugh in El médico de su honra, Coquín relates instead a most unfunny joke about a eunuch who tries to hide his lack under a mustache-guard. What the king does not know-and critics have not investigated-is that, rather than make Pedro laugh, the joke's tale of hairless eunuchs and emp...

Acknowledgments Introduction Naming the Body, Knowing the Body: Anatomy, Medicine, and the Language of 'Experience' Seeing the Body: Pornography, Sensation, and the Nexus of Sight and Desire Reading the Body: Petimetres, Physiognomics, and Gendered Otherness Other Bodies, Other Selves: The Virtuous Masculine Body in the Cartas Marruecas Conclusion...

In the early 17th century, when Spanish interests often competed with those of the House of Austria, three women in the court of Philip III of Spain - Empress Maria, Philip's grandmother; Margaret of Austria, Philip's wife; and Margaret of the Cross, Philip's aunt - worked behind the scenes to win favour for the causes of the Austrian Habsburgs. In...

Se reseñó el libro: La imitación como arte literario en el siglo XVI español.

Los entremeses cervantinos se destacan por su elemento ¿incómodo y distorsionador¿ que algunos crítocos asocian con una transgresión por parte de su autor de las reglas genéricas así como sociales. Un análisis detenido del primer y último entremés en el orden en que Cervantes los dio a la estampa señala, sin embargo, que la serie entremesil únicame...

Aunque en Italia la imitación como ejercicio literario formaba ya parte integrante de la preceptiva poética, para los escritores castellanos del siglo XVI representaba una manera nueva de aproximarse tanto a los clásicos greco-latinos como a los italianos más recientes. La imitatio enlaza a España con la actualidad circundante, y el renacimiento li...