Poetica y hermeneutica en la obra castellana de Fray Luis de Leon
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Alcántara-Mejía, José Ramón
issued: 2008-12-18T21:48:01Z
issued: 1992
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis examines the Castilian work of Fray Luis de Leon from the perspective of phenomenological hermeneutics as a literary approach. I discuss the lack of serious studies on 16th Century Spanish poetic theory, and propose that Fray Luis de Leon’s work offers a model of literary theory and creation that can be considered a philosophical poetics, in contrast to the rhetorical approach of Renaissance humanistic poetics. I examine the formation of Fray Luis de Leon’s literary work as a process that follows four stages of both hermeneutic understanding and literary creation. I examine the first stage in his translations of Horace and Virgil, his rendering of Tuscan lyric love poetry, and his interpretation of the Psalms. In the literary structuring of his work, I identify images and poetic devices he later expands into all his work. Simultaneously, I suggest that throughout his work, Fray Luis understood the role of language in its literary function as a way to describe reality. In stage two, I analyze Fray Luis de Leon’s biblical expositions, confirming the first stage findings. Fray Luis develops the meaning of poetic configuration, relating it to the literary function of Scripture. The interplay between the biblical text and his reflection on his own reality, forms a sub-text representing a true literary theory. First he attempts a practical literary work in La perfecta casada, a biblical commentary with clear literary pretensions. I extensively analyze Fray Luis de Leon’s main prose work, De los nombres de Cristo as a literary structure resulting from his reflection on literature’s role in understanding reality. Therefore, I approach this important work as literature, not simply as a philosophical treatise or as piece of superb writing. I use Aristotle’s categories, interpreted by Northrop Frye and Paul Ricoeur. Following Frye, literature is a symbolic, verbal structure with different levels of meaning; a structure which in the process of its configuration, giv…
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has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 1992-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0086623
language: eng
degree discipline: Hispanic Studies
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scholar level: Graduate
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identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3157