The Persistence of Presence : : Emblem and Ritual in Baroque Spain / / 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 sh...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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