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The invention of the lyric bodythe body of Helen in Hispanic literature and visual arts /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The invention of the lyric bodyby Osvaldo Cleger.
Reminder of title:	the body of Helen in Hispanic literature and visual arts /
Author:	Cleger, Osvaldo.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xix, 374 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Latin American literatureHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07661-8
ISBN:	9783032076618$q(electronic bk.)

The invention of the lyric bodythe body of Helen in Hispanic literature and visual arts /
Cleger, Osvaldo.

The invention of the lyric bodythe body of Helen in Hispanic literature and visual arts /[electronic resource] :by Osvaldo Cleger. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xix, 374 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Literatures of the Americas,2634-6028. - Literatures of the Americas..

CHAPTER 1: THE BODY OF HELEN -- PART 1: THE METAMORPHOSES OF HELEN -- CHAPTER 2: HELEN IN THE FLUCTUATING CANON OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES -- CHAPTER 3: THE APOTHEOSES OF HELEN IN THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE -- CHAPTER 4: THE PETRARCHAN BUST AND ITS BOUNDARIES -- PART 2: A BODY IN CRISIS -- CHAPTER 5: THE BAROQUE AND THE POLITICS OF THE ABSENT BODY -- CHAPTER 6: SAPPHO IN THE TROPICS: UN-CONJURING HELEN IN (POST)VICTORIAN CULTURE -- CHAPTER 7: DRUNK ON THE RAMBLAS: HELEN IS DEAD-LONG LIVE HELEN! BY WAY OF CONCLUSION.

This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusing on the Hispanic literary archive and its evolving strategies for representing her and her cultural doubles, here defined as Helen-like bodies. It explores literary subgenres dedicated to body representation and the techniques used to capture the body's complexity, socially coded beauty, and evocative power within distinct ideological and aesthetic frameworks. It also investigates the relationship between literary description and pictorial portraiture across the covered period, using an interdisciplinary approach that includes feminist theory, literary studies, ekphrastic criticism, rhetoric, and visual culture. Through this lens, the book introduces the concept of the lyric body as a canvas for societal values and ideologies, a surface densely inscribed with emotive and symbolic signifiers. The lyric body emerges as a cumulative construct, shaped by centuries of reinterpretation and reflecting shifting power structures and paradigms. In following Helen and her afterlives, this study reveals how female bodies are idealized, codified, fractured, erased, or given voice. It shows how the lyric body has remained a central, contested surface in Hispanic literature and visual culture and how it continues to engage questions of gender, visibility, and representation. Osvaldo Cleger is Associate Professor of Spanish at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He specializes in literature and visual arts, with a focus on Spain and Latin America.

ISBN: 9783032076618$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-07661-8doiSubjects--Personal Names:

1005025
Helen,
of Troy, Queen of Sparta--In literature.Subjects--Topical Terms:

309181
Latin American literature
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PQ7081

Dewey Class. No.: 860.998

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