El <i>culto graduado</i> de Castillo Solórzano: un texto marginado de la polémica gongorina

Abstract

This paper proposes considering El culto graduado, a short novel in Tardes entretenidas, the first collection published by Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, as a text excluded from the controversy about the new poetry, emerged in Spain with the release of Polifemo and Soledades by Luis de Góngora. For this purpose, firstly, the comments of the narrative voice are analyzed as intertexts of some documents from the controversy. Then, the analysis is focused on the construction of the parody against cultism, revealed in the speech of the main character, in the interspersed poems and in the staging of an academic satire, related to obtaining the “grado culto” (cultist writer degree). There, the elements most questioned by the detractors of the work of the Cordovan poet are satirized. Through all these elements, it will be intended to establish the place held by the figure of Castillo Solórzano in the context of the Gongorine controversy.