{"title":"Baroque Sovereignty Reconsidered: Walter Benjamin Quotes Diego Saavedra Fajardo","authors":"Jacobo de Camps","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916725","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: In Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels ( The Origin of German Tragic Drama , 1928), Walter Benjamin illustrates his argument on baroque sovereignty, which responds to Carl Schmitt's political theology, with a fragment from Diego Saavedra Fajardo's Empresas políticas . The quotation has hitherto been overlooked in scholarly discussions, which have often sidelined the role played by the seventeenth-century texts that represent the actual subject of Ursprung , and especially those texts from the Spanish baroque. The aim of this article is to reconsider Benjamin's interpretation of baroque political theory, and thus his critique of Schmitt, by engaging with the work of Saavedra Fajardo.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":" 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139391959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Lyricism by Min Hyoung Song (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916737","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":" 27","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139393138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shakespeare's Resources by John Drakakis (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":" 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139393636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uruguayan Theatre in Translation: Theory and Practice by Sophie Stevens (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916755","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"91 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139393738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics by Ben Glaser (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"50 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139394739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Machiavelli: From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"174 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139395590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carmen Revisitée/Revisiter Carmen: nouveaux visages d'un mythe transversal ed. by Claire Lozier and Isabelle Marc (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139395755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Ad modum floris': Petrarch's Narcissus between the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and Triumphi","authors":"Francesca Southerden","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916729","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This article analyses Petrarch's treatment of Narcissus in his vernacular poetry, focusing on his inclusion of an aspect of the myth not usually found in medieval vernacular rewritings of Ovid's Metamorphoses : the flower which seals Narcissus's metamorphosis. Setting Petrarch's flower-Narcissus in dialogue with passages from the anonymous fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé demonstrates the poet's distinctive treatment of the myth relative to his lyric and romance precursors even as he preserves its significance for dramatizing the ambivalent pleasures of erōs . Desiring 'in the manner of the flower' affects lover and beloved alike, with implications for how we read vegetal metamorphosis in Petrarch.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"58 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139394820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversaciones en verso: la epístola ética del Renacimiento y la construcción del yo poético by Clara Marías (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":" 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139393326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Beyond this Narrow Now'; or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2024.a916742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a916742","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"54 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139394729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}