Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain / / Mary Barnard, Frederick A. de Armas.

• VerfasserIn: Barnard, Mary,; de Armas, Frederick A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Heather,; Ambrose, Timothy,; Armas, Frederick A. de,; Avilés, Luis F.,; Barnard, Mary E.,; Bergmann, Emilie L.,; Collins, Marsha S.,; Friedman, Edward H.,; Giles, Ryan D.,; González, Goretti,; Horst, Robert ter,; Nadeau, Carolyn A.,; Quintero, María Cristina,; Weimer, Christopher B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain explores how the writers of the period shared the same impulse to collect, arrange, and display objects, though in imagined settings, as literary artefacts.These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads. The contributors emphasize how literature preserved and transformed objects to endow them with new meaning for aesthetic, social, religious, and political purposes ­- whether to perpetuate certain habits of thought and belief, or to challenge accepted social and moral norms.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- PART ONE. Objects of Luxury and Power -- 1. Gifts for the Vicereine of Naples: The Weavings of Garcilaso's Third Eclogue -- 2. Artful Edifices and the Construction of Identity in Montemayor's Diana and Lope's Arcadia -- 3. The Artful Gamblers: Wagering Danaë in Cervantes' Don Quixote I. 33-35 -- 4. The Things They Carried: Sovereign Objects in Calderón de la Barca's La gran Cenobia -- 5. Beyond Canvas and Paint: Falling Portraits in the Spanish Comedia -- PART TWO. The Matter of Words -- 6. Book Marks: Jerónimo de Aguilar and the Book of Hours -- 7. Embodying the Visual, Visualizing Sound in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero sueño -- 8. Picaresque Partitions: Spanish Antiheroes and the Material World -- 9. Francisco de Quevedo and the Poetic Matter of Patronage -- PART THREE. Objects against Culture -- 10. Transformation and Transgression at the Banquet Scene in La Celestina -- 11. The Prayer of the Immured Woman and the Matter of Lazarillo de Tormes -- 12. War and the Material Conditions for Suffering in Cervantes' Numancia -- 13. The Goddess, Dionysus, and the Material World in Don Quijote -- 14. Dismantling Sosiego: Undressing, Dressing, and Cross-Dressing in Mateo Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache -- Contributors