The Persistence of Presence : : Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain / / Bradley J. Nelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Nelson, Bradley J. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART ONE. The Emblem --; 1. Emblem Theory, Emblem Practice: A Consideration of Juan de Borja's Resistance to Theory --; 2. Anamorphosis and Theoretical Depth of Meaning: Juan de Horozco's Emblemas morales --; PART TWO. Applied Emblematics --; 3. Lope de Vega's Emblematic Indios: The Discovery of America, or the End(s) of History --; 4. From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational Sign: The Auto Sacramental and the Ritual Colonization of Modernity --; 5. Calderón's El alcalde de Zalamea: Pedro Crespo as Literary Subject --; PART THREE. Bodies and Signs --; 6. A Ritual Practice for Modernity: Baltasar Gracián's Organized Body of Taste --; 7. Bodies and Corpses, Voices and Silence: Grotesque Presence in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda --; Conclusion: Authorial Emblems --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442660298; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442660298
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bradley J. Nelson.

The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period. As representations of ideas and ideals, emblems are allegories produced in a particular place and time, and their study can shed light on the central cultural and political activities of an era.Bradley J. Nelson argues that the emblem was a primary indicator of the social and political functions of diverse literary practices in early modern Spain, from theatre to epic prose. Furthermore, the disintegration of a unified medieval world view left many seeking the kinds of deep knowledge that could be accessed through symbolic pictures, increasing their cultural significance. In this detailed examination of emblem books, sacred and secular theatre, and Cervantes' critique of baroque allegory in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, Nelson connects the early history of emblematics with the drive towards cultural and political hegemony in Counter-Reformation Spain.