TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mats Malm
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Voluptuous Language and Poetic Ambivalence
T2  - The Example of Swedish Baroque- Translated by Alan Crozier
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108730
N2  - Within the rhetorical tradition lay an often unnoticeable, but at times marked suspicion about what was perceived to be effeminate and voluptuous language. Sensual and pleasurable language was thus understood as immoral in the same way as excessive corporeal pleasures were considered detrimental, and the notion of voluptuous language could result in a tension concerning the delights of poetry. This study develops ways to analyse how this poetic ambivalence affected poetry in early modern Sweden, where the notion of voluptuous language became especially strong, not only influencing poetry but also connecting to political and religious self-understanding. Treating this in connection with the media conditions of the time, the study attempts to clarify the phenomenon of ‘Baroque’.
KW  - Antiquity, Rhetoric, Morals, Gender, Poetry
LA  - English
ER  -