Melancholic Masks: Loss, Love and the Poetic Word in the Libro de buen amor.
Among the many topics of the fourteenth-century Spanish masterpiece Libro de buen amor, loss is a central if submerged thread. An exploration of the ostensibly negative pole of the opposition between spiritual and mundane, earthly, love, the poem presents the losses inherent in amorous experience. B...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839) Vol. 90; no. 8; pp. 897 - 921 |
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2013
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