UID:
almafu_9958353168002883
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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PART ONE. The Emblem --
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1. Emblem Theory, Emblem Practice: A Consideration of Juan de Borja’s Resistance to Theory --
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2. Anamorphosis and Theoretical Depth of Meaning: Juan de Horozco’s Emblemas morales --
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PART TWO. Applied Emblematics --
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3. Lope de Vega’s Emblematic Indios: The Discovery of America, or the End(s) of History --
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4. From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational Sign: The Auto Sacramental and the Ritual Colonization of Modernity --
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5. Calderón’s El alcalde de Zalamea: Pedro Crespo as Literary Subject --
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PART THREE. Bodies and Signs --
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6. A Ritual Practice for Modernity: Baltasar Gracián’s Organized Body of Taste --
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7. Bodies and Corpses, Voices and Silence: Grotesque Presence in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda --
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Conclusion: Authorial Emblems --
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Notes --
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Works Cited --
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Index
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442660298
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442660298
