Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain / / Mary Barnard, Frederick A. de Armas.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Toronto Iberic ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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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