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Creel, Bryant. The Voice of the Phoenix: Metaphors of Death and Rebirth in Classics of the Iberian Renaissance. Temple, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 272), 2004. xv + 374 pp. $40.00. ISBN 0–86698–315–5, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 43, Issue 4, October 2007, Page 472, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqm077
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This collection of independent essays offers a series of innovative readings, from a broad socio-cultural perspective primarily informed by psychoanalysis and philosophy as well as modern aesthetics, of key Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance literary works, from poesía de cancionero and Lazarillo de Tormes, through the poetry of Garcilaso and Fray Luis de León, to the prose of Bernardim Ribeiro, Montemayor and Cervantes. The author explores a variety of possible ways in which these works played a crucial role in effecting the cultural change and renovation experienced in the Iberian peninsula between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries by subtly introducing new ideas that implied a radical transformation of the medieval social and cultural value system along humanistic lines.