Light Imagery in the Spanish Ballad

• Author(s): Patricia Pogal,
• Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
• Pages: 154
• ISBN_10: 1882528158
  ISBN_13: 9781882528158
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Medieval , Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional ,

Description:... This book examines the origin of the medieval Spanish concept of light and the poetic function which luminous imagery serves. It concludes with an investigation of the traditional element (radiance) in the balladry of three Spanish poets: Lope de Vega, the Duque de Rivas, and Federico García Lorca.