Research Catalog

Title

Objects of culture in the literature of imperial Spain / edited by Mary E. Barnard and Frederick A. de Armas.

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barnard, Mary E., 1944-
• De Armas, Frederick A

Description

xxi, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--

Series Statement

Toronto Iberic ; 4

Uniform Title

Toronto Iberic ; 4.

Subjects

• Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
• Material culture in literature
• Material culture > Spain > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Objects of luxury and power. Gifts for the Vicereine of Naples : the weavings of Garcilaso's Third Eclogue / Mary E. Barnard ; Artful edifices and the construction of identity in Montemayor's Diana and Lope's Arcadia / Marsha S. Collins ; The artful gamblers : wagering Danaë in Cervantes' Don Quixote 1.33-35 / Frederick A. de Armas ; The things they carried : sovereign objects in Calderón de la Barca's La gran Cenobia / María Cristina Quintero ; Beyond canvas and paint : falling portraits in the Spanish Comedia / Christopher B. Weimer -- The matter of words. Book Marks : Jerónimo de Aguilar and the Book of Hours / Heather Allen ; Embodying the visual, visualizing sound in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero sueño / Emilie L. Bergmann ; Picaresque partitiions : Spanish antiheroes and the material world / Edward H. Friedman ; Francisco de Quevodo and the poetic matter of patronage / Robert Ter Horst -- Objects against culture. Transformation and transgression at the banquet scene in La Celestina / Carolyn A. Nadeau ; The prayer of the immured woman and the matter of Lazarillo de Tormes / Ryan D. Giles ; War and the material conditions for suffering in Cervantes' Numancia / Luis F. Avilés ; The goddess, Dionysus, and the material world in Don Quijote / Timothy Ambrose ; Dismantling Sosiego : undressing, dressing, and cross-dressing in Mateo Alemán's Guzmán de Alfarache / Goretti González.
• Objects of luxury and power -- The matter of words -- Objects against culture.

Call Number

JFE 16-5105

ISBN

• 9781442645127 (hardback)
• 1442645121 (hardback)

LCCN

2013409405

OCLC

816764512

Title

Objects of culture in the literature of imperial Spain / edited by Mary E. Barnard and Frederick A. de Armas.

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Toronto Iberic ; 4

Toronto Iberic ; 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Barnard, Mary E., 1944- author, editor.

De Armas, Frederick A, author, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-5105