Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Gongora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
On today\u2019s episode on New Books Network, we're joined by Dr. Felipe Valencia, Associate Professor of Spanish in the World Languages and Cultures Department at Utah State University to discuss his book,\xa0The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of G\xf3ngora, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2021. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Spanish lyric underwent a notable development. Several Spanish poets reinvented lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sang of and perpetrated symbolic violence against the female beloved. This shift emerged in response to the rising prestige and commercial success of the epic and was enabled by the rich discourse on the link between melancholy and creativity in men. In\xa0The Melancholy Void\xa0Professor Valencia examines this reconstruction of the lyric in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620.\nDr. Julia M. Gossard\xa0hosts this episode. She is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of History at Utah State University.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies