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Book SynopsisThe turn of the fifteenth century saw an explosion of literature throughout Iberia that was not just sentimental, but about sentiment. Alone Together reveals the political, ethical, and poetic dimensions of this phenomenon, which was among the most important of the substantial changes in intellectual and literary culture taking place in the crowns of Portugal, Castile, and Aragon. With careful analyses of lyric poetry, sentimental prose, and wide-ranging treatises in multiple languages, this study foregrounds the dense web of relations among these genres and linguistic and cultural traditions.
Drawing on Stoic and early monastic thought, authors such as the Marqués de Santillana, Ausiàs March, and Alfonso de Madrigal explored the unifying potential of shared emotion in an ethical rehabilitation that cut across the personal and political, exalting friendly conversation, civic communication, and collective poetic composition. In his readings of these authors, Henr
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"Every chapter of Alone Together is well-documented in sixty pages of notes and Bibliography… An extremely detailed and well-designed index usefully helps locate discussions of individual authors, poems, and concepts. For any student of late-medieval Iberian literature and culture, Alone Together will reward careful reading." -- Mark D. Johnston, DePaul University * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *
Table of Contents
Introduction: Courtly Conflict and the Passions Part One: Friendship and Pleasure 1. Classical Rhetoric and Vernacular Theories of Social Integration 2. Alfonso de Madrigal, el Tostado, on the Politics of Friendship 3. Reason and Its Discontents Part Two: Compassion and Consolation 4. Impassibility, Pity, Community 5. Passionate Quotation 6. The Impasse of the Courtly Reward 7. Confession, Consolation, and the Poetics of Hylomorphism Conclusion: Tragic Enclosure Bibliography
