The Poetry of Garcilaso: Bucolic Tradition and the Invention of a Visual Signature. Issue 10 (25th November 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Béhar, Roland
• Is Part Of: Bulletin of Spanish studies. Volume 93:Issue 10(2016)
• Page Start: 51
• Page End: 63
• Publication Date: 2016-11-25
• Subjects: signature -- anagram -- onomastics -- Garcilaso de la Vega -- willow tree -- bucolic; Spanish philology -- Periodicals; Portuguese philology -- Periodicals; Spanish literature -- Periodicals; Portuguese literature -- Periodicals; Spain -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Civilization -- Periodicals; Portugal -- Civilization -- Periodicals; 860.5
• DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2017.1298320
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1475-3820

Abstract

Abstract: This paper analyses how it is possible to use the concept of 'visual signature' for the reading of Garcilaso de la Vega's poetical works. The pun on the name of the poet, disseminated throughout his eclogues, becomes a kind of sphragis, in a way that can be derived from Ferdinand de Saussure's interpretation of anagrams and, more precisely, in the way Joachim Du Bellay theorized the praxis of the onomastic allusio .