Cicerón y Cilicia

A collection of poems, including "The Massacre," "No Harm Shall Come," "Touched," "Evensong," and "Amberose Triste"

Trabajo Universitario del año 2017 en eltema Filología alemana - Literatura alemana moderna, Nota: 9, Universidad de Sevilla, Materia: 4o, Idioma: Español, Resumen: La literatura tiene un cierto menosprecio por parte de la crítica, sin embargo, es el género más vendido. Entonces podemos pensar, ¿Es la novela romántica literatura?

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."