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Visions in exile : the body in Spanish literature and linguistics, 1500-1800

Title: Visions in exile : the body in Spanish literature and linguistics, 1500-1800 / Malcolm K. Read.
Author: Read, Malcolm K. (Malcolm Kevin), 1945-
Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.

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Description

xii, 211 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Malcolm K. Read employs a psychoanalytic model which sees civilization as a manner of instinctual renunciation in this analysis of selected texts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on their moments of silence and contradiction, he demonstrates that certain attitudes toward the body expressed in these texts have a basis, albeit unconscious, in a motivation which is ultimately political. The central topics, deeply intertwined thematically and theoretically, relate to the nature and development of language; to the Baroque art of Gongora and Quevedo; to Feijoo's defense of the rationalist subject set against Torres Villarroel's subversion of the same; and to the neo-classical aesthetics of Luzan and Arteaga. The result is an interdisciplinary approach that challenges traditional assumptions in both literary criticism and linguistic historiography.

Series Statement

Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, 0165-8743 ; v. 30

Uniform Title

Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; v. 30.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211)

ISBN

1556190719
9781556190711
9027217459
9789027217455
8556180718 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

89017736

OCLC

ocm20170061
20170061
SCSB-9150907

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Princeton University Library