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  • The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain

    by Mary E. Barnard, Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    The Spatial Turn in the Literature and Art of Early Modern Spain investigates novel and transformative ways in which writers and artists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain conceived of space through the lens of what recent studies have called the spatial turn.With an emphasis on the production of space, as proposed by Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and Yi-Fu Tuan, the essays in this ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • A Poetry of Things

    The Material Lyric in Habsburg Spain

    by Mary E. Barnard ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    A Poetry of Things examines the works of four poets whose use of visual and material culture contributed to the remarkable artistic and literary production during the reign of Philip III (1598–1621). Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Juan de Arguijo, and Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza cast cultural objects – ranging from books and tombstones to urban ruins, sculptures, and portraits – as ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe

    by Mary E Barnard ...
    Garcilaso de la Vega and the Material Culture of Renaissance Europe examines the role of cultural objects in the lyric poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega, the premier poet of sixteenth-century Spain. As a pioneer of the “new poetry” of Renaissance Europe, aligned with the court, empire, and modernity, Garcilaso was fully attuned to the collection and circulation of luxury artefacts and other worldly ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

    A Literature of Fragments

    by Jonathan David Bradbury ...
    Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote

    by Susan Byrne ...
    Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history – into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel.Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • Baroque Horrors

    Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

    by David Castillo ...
    "David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque."---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley"Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologist's dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

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  • Exotic Nation

    Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain

    by Barbara Fuchs ...
    In the Western imagination, Spain often evokes the colorful culture of al-Andalus, the Iberian region once ruled by Muslims. Tourist brochures inviting visitors to sunny and romantic Andalusia, home of the ingenious gardens and intricate arabesques of Granada's Alhambra Palace, are not the first texts to trade on Spain's relationship to its Moorish past. Despite the fall of Granada to the Catholic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain

    by Mary Barnard, Frederick A. de Armas ...
    Series Book 5 - Toronto Iberic
    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, ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Cervantes' "Don Quixote"

    by Roberto González Echevarría ...
    Series series The Open Yale Courses Series
    The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes’ novel and its characters have become integrated into the cultures of the Western Hemisphere, influencing language and modern ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Laughter of the Saints

    Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain

    by Ryan D. Giles ...
    Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote.The first full ... Read more

    $53.99 USD