Former students of the distinguished professor and scholar provide here a collection of thought-provoking studies touching on a variety of topics, from secular poetry and pastoral prose to Don Quixote and mysticism. "These essays, contributed by fifteen of Elias Rivers' students, are a fitting tribute to a teacher capable of awakening interests and inspiring careers."-Eric W Naylor, Hispania.
- Cover
- Index
- Preface
- Elias L. Rivers
- Tradition, Voice and Self in the Love Poetry of Garcilaso
- Visual and Verbal Modes of Representation in Peribáñez
- Heart Imagery in Santa Teresa
- Sannazzaro and Montemayor: Toward a Comparative Study of Arcadia and Diana
- Sex and the Single Hidalgo: Reflections on Eros in Don Quixote
- The Semiotics of Poetry and the Golden Age Sonnet
- Góngora's Parody of Ovide moralisé in La Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe
- A Hope for Coherence: The New Logic of Meaning in a Text by Lezama
- Of Monuments and Ashes: Some Remarks on Biographical Patterns
- The Human Body in Spanish Renaissance and Baroque Poetry: Testing Laín Entralgo's Theories
- Amarilis's Verse Epistle and Her Love for Lope: Seeing and Hearing
- A Prologue and Afterword for an Inquiry into Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter 20
- In the Labyrinth of Self: Character and Role in Calderón's La dama duende
- The Wound and the Flame: Desire and Transcendence in Quevedo and Saint John of the Cross
- Six Misogynous Sonnets Attributed to Góngora
- Epilogue
- Tabula Gratulatoria