El caballero de Olmedo, by Lope de Vega: poetic and rhetorical study

• Grant number: 18/18709-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Other Vernacular Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Érico Nogueira
• Grantee: Gabriel Furine Contatori
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Spanish Poetry in the 17th century was regulated by definite poetic and rhetoric prescriptions and rules. Since Lope de Vega wrote a treatise on the subject, this project aims at clarifying how he puts his own theory into practice by a close reading of one of his most celebrated plays - i.e., El caballero de Olmedo. By so doing, we hope to understand how he articulates Aristotelian and Horatian concepts with his own poetic practice.