Verbale Obszönität bei Francisco de Quevedo

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