Verbale Obszönität bei Francisco de Quevedo

Francisco de Quevedo’s satirical poetry is commonly viewed as lewd and grotesquely comical, a manifestation of what Bakhtin called the “Carnivalesque.” But not all of de Quevedo’s satirical poetry fits this interpretation. In this study the author investigates the aggressivity and obscenity of Quevedo’s work, and particularly his personal invectives against Luis de Góngora, a Spanish poet of the previous generation.