Gongorism

Gon·gor·ism

G0189900 (gŏng′gə-rĭz′əm)n. A florid, ornate literary style, often employing elaborate puns and conceits.

[After Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627), Spanish poet.]

Gon′gor·is′tic (-rĭs′tĭk) adj.

Gongorism

(ˈɡɒŋɡəˌrɪzəm) n1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an affected literary style characterized by intricate language and obscurity2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an example of this[C19: from Spanish gongorismo; see Góngora y Argote] ˈGongorist n ˌGongoˈristic adj

Gon•go•rism

(ˈgɒŋ gəˌrɪz əm, ˈgɔŋ-)

n. a literary style characterized by ornateness of language and artificiality of diction. [1805–15; < Sp gongorismo, after the style of Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561-1627), Spanish poet] Gon′go•rist, n. Gon`go•ris′tic, adj.

Gongorism

a Spanish verse style invented by the 17th-century poet Luis de Góngora y Argote, characterized by a studied obscurity, an emphasis on Latin terms and syntax, allusions to classical myths, and lavish use of metaphors, hyperbole, paradoxes, neologisms, and antitheses. Also called cultismo, culteranismo. Cf. Euphuism. — Gongoristic, Gongoresque, adj.See also: Literary Style

an elaborate, florid, intricate style of writing, after Góngora y Argote.See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices

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Gongorism - an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongoraeuphuism - any artificially elegant style of language

Gongorism

an aristocratic school of Spanish 17th-century poetry, one of whose founders was the poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.

Analogous in many ways to Marinism in Italy and précieux literature in France, Gongorism rejected the Renaissance principles of accessibility in poetry and turned to an “aristocracy of the spirit” (gente culta). It sanctioned the “cult of pure form,” or plotlessness as a principle and intentional complexity of poetic language. In the 1620 sand 1630’s many Spanish Renaissance artistic figures such as Lope F. de Vega Carpio and Tirso de Molina criticized Gongorism. In the mid-17th century, however, Gongorism became the hegemonic trend in Spanish and Spanish-American poetry. In the 18th century, the term “Gongorism” became synonymous with affected, formalistic poetry. Interest in Gongorism was regenerated at the very beginning of the 20th century, under conditions of a crisis in bourgeois culture.

REFERENCES

Retortillo y Tornos. A. Examen crítico del gongorismo. Madrid, 1890.
Mérimée, E. Góngora et le gongorisme espagnol. Paris, 1911.
Kane, E. K. Gongorism and the Golden Age. Chapel Hill-London. 1928.

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noun an affected elegance of style that was introduced into Spanish literature by the poet Gongora

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