Autorité poétique et transfert européen : le cas de l’Espagne au travers de l’exemple de Góngora

Abstract

In Spain, the imitation of structures of Petrarchist origin as a means of poetic authorisation from the very first, in other words, since the instauration of the sonnet in Spain in the 16th century, denoted by trends in pluralisation. The aforementioned paved the way for new strategies in authorisation, defined less and less solely by the simple imitation of the Petrarchist model, but rather by staging the author’s ingenio. At this point, the acuity, the “Agudeza” of the author grounded this new poetry, and was made manifest in using more and more complicated rhetorical methods. With Gongora, this predominance in stylistic forms led to the reduction of the semantical content of his poems, including all autobiographical and moral references typical of Petrarchist tradition. This rupture with pre-modern biographical style was achieved, on one hand, by depersonalising his poems, and on the other, by fictionalising the content of his works. The following article will attempt to highlight the Culteranist use of stylistic methods specific to Gongora and how said methods led to surpassing the biographical paradigm, so as to identify the importance of his own aspirations to intellectual distinction and poetic authorisation.