Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain - Couverture rigide

Barnard, Mary E.; De Armas, Frederick A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442645121 ISBN 13 : 9781442645127

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mary E. Barnard is associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University. Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442645121
• ISBN 13: 9781442645127
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
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