Faculty Publications
Co-edited by John Beusterien, Professor of Spanish
Imprint: University of Toronto Press,
Published: April 2020 © 2020
Series: Toronto Iberic
Page Count: 350 Pages
Illustrations: 17 b&w illustrations
Traditional Petrarchan and Neoplatonic paradigms of love started to show clear signs of inadequacy and exhaustion in the sixteenth century. How did the Spanish Golden Age recast worn out discourses of love and make them compelling again? This volume explores how Spanish letters recognized that old love paradigms, especially the crisis of the subject, presented an extraordinary opportunity for revising traditional literary strictures. As a result, during Spain's nascent modernity, literature took up the challenge to expand existing forms of desire and subjectivity.
A range of scholars show how canonical and non-canonical Golden Age writers like Miguel de Cervantes, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Lope de Vega, and Francisco de la Torre y Sevil became equal agents of the sweeping ontological reconfiguration of the idea of eros that defined their culture. Such reconfiguration includes: the troubling displacement of "self" and "other" seen in sentimental genres like the pastoral or romance; the overlapping of emotions such as love and jealousy characteristic of the baroque lyric and dramatic production; and the conflation of axioms such as eros and eris prevalent in contemporaneous epic experiments.
In uniting the findings of often surprising texts, the collection of essays in Goodbye Eros takes a pioneering look at how Golden Age moral, ideological, scientific, and literary discourses intersected to create fascinating re-elaborations of the trope of love. -
Publications by Bernd Reiter, Professor of Spanish
Monograph:
Decolonizing the Social Sciences and Humanities: an Anti-Elitism Manifesto. New York:
Routledge, January 2022
Edited books:
The Routledge Handbook of Afro Latin American Studies, with John Anton Sanchez. New
York: Routledge, November 2022
Colonial Slavery, by Jacob Gorender, edited by Bernd Reiter, translated by Alejandro Reyes, New York: Routledge, March 2022
He is the book series editor of the Routledge Decolonizing the Classics Special Book Series. In 2022, they were able to publish:
• A Critique of Development and Other Essays, by Gustavo Esteva, translated by Kathryn Dix, August 2022
• The Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays, by Rita Laura Segato, translated by Ramsey McGlazer, March 2022
• Colonial Slavery, by Jacob Gorender, translated by Alejandro Reyes, March 2022
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