How Long to Read The Melancholy Void

How Long Does it Take to Read The Melancholy Void?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read The Melancholy Void by Felipe Valencia (1983- author)

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 The Melancholy Void Felipe Valencia examines this reconstruction of the lyric in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620. Through a study of canonical and influential texts, such as the major poems by Luis de Góngora and the epic of Alonso de Ercilla, but also lesser-known texts, such as the lyrics by Miguel de Cervantes, The Melancholy Void addresses four understudied problems in the scholarship of early modern Spanish poetry: the use of gender violence in love poetry as a way to construct the masculinity of the poetic speaker; the exploration in Spanish poetry of the link between melancholy and male creativity; the impact of epic on Spanish lyric; and the Spanish contribution to the fledgling theory of the lyric. The Melancholy Void brings poetry and lyric theory to the conversation in full force and develops a distinct argument about the integral role of gender violence in a prominent strand of early modern Spanish lyric that ran from Garcilaso to Góngora and beyond.

How long is The Melancholy Void?

The Melancholy Void by Felipe Valencia (1983- author) is 354 pages long, and a total of 89,916 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Melancholy Void Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read The Melancholy Void aloud.

What Reading Level is The Melancholy Void?

The Melancholy Void is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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