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Lopes Arcadia: A Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Marsha S. Collins
Marsha S. Collins*
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Abstract

Lope de Vega's pastoral romance Arcadia (1598) presents a fictionalized self-portrait of the author looking back on himself as a younger man, and, at the same time, constitutes a refashioning of the artist into a cultured poet articulating his own poetics. Lope employs the oneiric potential of pastoral to reshape the past imaginatively, even as he engages creatively with pastoral conventions to execute a virtuoso performance as a poet and establish himself as a serious artist who merits the esteem and patronage of the Spanish court. As a result, Arcadia is an artful, complex, and highly idiosyncratic work that reveals Lope's predilection for literary innovation and experimentation, and undermines the notion of pastoral as a staid genre resistant to change. In the process of reshaping pastoral conventions Lope claims demiurgic, visionary powers for poets, likening such powers to those of the Creator himself

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , Fall 2004 , pp. 882 - 907
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2004

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