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Ph.D. Candidate, Literatures in Spanish Department of Spanish and Portuguese Indiana University, Bloomington Contact info: email: a p a r k @ i n d i a n a . e d u |
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Brief bio
| A native Canadian, I grew up speaking two languages: English and Korean. I began studying music and languages from an early age: I started piano lessons before I started school and learned French in elementary school. In high school, I studied French, German and Spanish; by that time, music had become my first priority, and I was immersed in a year-round schedule of music competitions, examinations and summer courses in music theory and history. As a natural outgrowth of this emphasis on music, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Performance, but still continued to study languages (German and Spanish). In the middle of my undergraduate degree, I took a three-week trip to Peru. After graduating, I studied for a year at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, where I further developed my Spanish through contact with fellow musicians. During my Masters degree in Piano at Indiana University, I completed a minor in Literatures in Spanish. Thus, music and Spanish have always been closely tied together for me, whether as a pianist or student of literature. I find it encouraging and inspiring to see people who pursue their eclectic interests to the fullest, and have accepted that, in spite of shifting my focus, the music part can never really go away. After all, "once a musician, always a musician."
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Specialization
| I specialize in Golden Age poetry (1500-late 1600) in Spanish. I am also interested in Latin American authors such as Cortázar and Borges. Currently, I am writing my dissertation on Luis de Góngora (1561-1627), particularly his Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea. While specific in focus, the research for the dissertation had me covering various authors and treatises during the Golden Age, as well as a broad chronological spectrum in terms of works that discussed the topic of music and literature. As a consequence, I hope to also pursue the music-literature connection in the future, in addition to studying other Golden Age poets. |
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Dissertation
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Title: Poetic Polyphony in the Polifemo: Outer Musicality and Hidden Harmony
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| My dissertation focuses on musical aspects of the poetic rhetoric (both in structural and linguistic terms) in Luis de Góngora’s Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea. I explore aspects of poetic language or thematic treatment in this work that evoke musical—and therefore, rhetorical—concepts inherited from the Renaissance. The analysis considers phonological, prosaic, structural and thematic devices that recall musical techniques. In speaking of music, it is the theoretical or speculative type that is most relevant for analytical purposes; at the same time, musical performance and collaboration were not unknown to Góngora, nor is the aural element excluded from the analytical criteria in studying one of his greatest poems.
In exploring Góngora’s own musical background, I learned a great deal about Spanish Renaissance music, which I studied only superficially in my graduate music courses. Through my dissertation, I've discovered that this field has expanded in the last ten years, a trend from which I have benefitted greatly in terms of my dissertation. |
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