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De/Reconstructing Appearances: Lope de Vega's Inversion of Female Beauty in the Rimas Humanas y Divinas Del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos
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  • Mark J. Mascia, Sacred Heart University
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Publication Date
1-1-2002
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Abstract

This article illustrates how Lope de Vega, in his Rimas Humanas y Divinas Del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos, subverts idealized female beauty through the glorification of a more commonplace feminine object, while the time-honored poetic conventions which favored the former are deconstructed and replaced by a new anti-norm of female objectification.

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Originally published:

Mascia, Mark J. "De/Reconstructing Appearances: Lope de Vega's Inversion of Female Beauty in the Rimas Humanas y Divinas Del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos." Romance Notes 42.3 (2002): 313-322.

Citation Information
Mark J. Mascia. "De/Reconstructing Appearances: Lope de Vega's Inversion of Female Beauty in the Rimas Humanas y Divinas Del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos" (2002)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mark_mascia/9/