Culteranismo is a stylistic movement of the Baroque period of Spanish history that is also commonly referred to as Gongorismo (after Luis de Góngora). It began in the late 16th century with the writing of Luis de Góngora and lasted through the 17th century.[1][2][3]
Culteranismo is characterized by an ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and a message that is complicated by a heavy use of metaphors and latinate complex syntactical order.
The name blends culto ("cultivated") and luteranismo ("Lutheranism")[1] and was coined by its opponents to present it as a heresy of "true" poetry.[1]
" Estas que me dictó, rimas sonoras, / Culta sí aunque bucólica Talía, / Oh excelso Conde, en las purpúreas horas / Que es rosas la alba y rosicler el día, / Ahora que de luz tu niebla doras, / Escucha, al son de la zampoña mía, / Si ya los muros no te ven de Huelva / Peinar el viento, fatigar la selva."
—Luis de Góngora, Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea, 1612
Poetry from this movement seems to use as many words as possible to convey little meaning or to conceal meaning.[4] It is also associated with Latinized syntax and mythological allusions.
Culteranismo existed in stark contrast with conceptismo, another movement of the Baroque period which is characterized by a witty style, word games, simple vocabulary, and an attempt to convey multiple meanings in as few words as possible. The best-known representative of Spanish conceptismo, Francisco de Quevedo, had an ongoing feud with Luis de Góngora in which each criticized the other’s writing and personal life.
Other practitioners of the style include Hortensio Félix Paravicino.
^ abcBleiberg, Germán; Ihrie, Maureen; Pérez, Janet, eds. (1993). "Culteranismo". Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula. Vol. A–K. Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press. pp. 479–480. ISBN 0-313-28731-7.
^Baldick, Chris (2015). "Culteranismo". The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms(Online Version) (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191783234.
^Greene, Roland; et al., eds. (2012). "Neo-Gongorism". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th rev. ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.
^"Baroque Literature overview". www.classicspanishbooks.com. Retrieved 2019-04-21.
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