Browning's Spanish settings and charaterization in the dramatic monologue
- Autores: María Pilar Abad García
- Localización: ES: Revista de filología inglesa, ISSN 0210-9689, Nº. 15, 1991, págs. 67-84
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Browning's choice of a Spanish clerical setting for his "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" makes this poem emblematic of the author's poetic interest in the liberal Spain of this day as well as of his own religious-vitalistic thought. Both aspects are artistically set in the poem by means of an already masterly execution of the techniques specific to Browning's favourite literary medium: the Dramatic Monologue, namely, of both the dramatic and lyrical methods of characterisation, which, as befits the D. M., backfire on the speaker, who becomes the target of Browning's hostility to backward looking religious-ritualistic stances. At the same time, the author is subtle enough to let us perceive the possibility of other more positive stances within the same religious context.
