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Friendship in literature

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Although the traditions of ‹i›philia‹/i› and ‹i›amicitia‹/i› proclaim friendship as a universal concept, it has been an androcentric model until the emergence of the female friend in the Age of Enlightenment. This book analyzes the discursive turn from premodern to modern gendered constructions of friends in Spanish literature and sheds light on specific models of male, female, and mixed relationships in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Our approach reveals the gendering of male friendship through the exclusion of women and shows the crucial moment when women appear capable of true friendship. The study traces the process of transition from a homosocial bond based on a feudal notion of honor in the ‹i›Siglo de Oro‹/i› to new forms of affective relations in a proto-bourgeois society that promotes equality, reason and citizenship. This book spans two centuries of friendship and scrutinizes the creation of specifically gendered social bonds in literary and theoretical frameworks ranging from political writing to poetry, and from the working classes to the intellectual elites. Through ‹i›novellas‹/i›, novels, plays, poems, moral weeklies, and letters by female and male authors, every chapter examines a specific concept of fe/male friends related to society, politics, ethics, subjectivity, courtly culture, family and marriage structures. Thus, the book demonstrates the very act of gendering as it relates to friendship as one of the most important forms of social interaction.

Friendship in literature. --- Gender identity in literature.

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Epic literature, European --- Friendship in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Friendship in literature. --- Friendship --- Friendship. --- Greek language --- Griechisch. --- Semantics.

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Was ist Freundschaft? Die traditionelle Bestimmung der Freundschaft, die Aristoteles so wirkungsmächtig als eine Praxis des nahen Zusammenlebens zwischen Gleichen bestimmt hatte, ist nicht mehr das, was unsere heutige Kultur der Freundschaft ausmacht. In unserer Zeit sind Freundschaften eingebunden in offene und dynamische soziale Netzwerke, sie sind temporär und plural, sie verwirklichen sich oft eher in der Distanz der telekommunikativen Medien als in der Gegenwärtigkeit des anderen. Der Band fragt nach den historischen Bestimmungen des Begriffes der Freundschaft und seinen philosophischen, theologischen, soziologischen und literarischen Bedeutungen, um das Bewusstsein dafür zu öffnen, was Freundschaft sein kann.

Friendship --- Friendship in literature --- Poetry --- History and criticism