A Poetry of Things : : The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain / / Mary E. Barnard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Barnard, Mary E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Iberic
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 22 halftones

A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598–1621). Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Juan de Arguijo, and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza cast cultural objects – ranging from books and tombstones to urban ruins, sculptures, and portraits – as participants in lively interactions with their readers and viewers across time and space. Mary E. Barnard argues that in their dialogic performance, these objects serve as sites of inquiry for exploring contemporary political, social, and religious issues, such as the preservation of humanist learning in an age of print, the collapse of empires and the rebirth of the city, and the visual culture of the Counter-Reformation. Her inspired readings explain how the performance of cultural objects, whether they remain in situ or are displayed in a library, museum, or convent, is the most compelling.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: The Material Scene -- Chapter One. The Agency of Objects -- Chapter Two. Material Rome -- Chapter Three. Producing Pastoral Spaces -- Chapter Four. Staging Myth -- Chapter Five. A Mystic and Her Objects -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Toronto Iberic