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Format: 1 online resource (299 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9781442660298 (e-book)

Series Statement: University of Toronto Romance Series

Additional Edition: Print version: Nelson, Bradley J., 1963- Persistence of presence : emblem and ritual in Baroque Spain. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c2010 ISBN 9780802099778

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442660298

Content: The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period.

Note: 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

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442660298

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442660298