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Diogo Bernardes's brandura

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Readers of Diogo Bernardes’s (c.1530-c. 1595) poetry have long praised the brandura (gentleness) of his work. But what brandura meant and how positively this quality was viewed shifted depending on the context of discussion. Brandura was associated with the middle style, mastery of elocutio, and, by extension, with poetry’s ability to move those who listened to or read it. Because of this, brandura could, at one moment, provoke moral anxiety, and at another, could signal the height of poetic ...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1215/00267929-4198231

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
Portuguese
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Duke University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Journal website
Volume:
78
Issue:
4
Pages:
465-489
Publication date:
2017-12-01
Acceptance date:
2017-02-25
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EISSN:
1527-1943
ISSN:
0026-7929
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pubs:687548
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uuid:08575ff7-cd20-4d19-a31c-0de68d9808c4
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pubs:687548
Source identifiers:
687548
Deposit date:
2017-03-30

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