Writing for the eyes in the Spanish Golden Age
By: edited by Frederick A. de Armas.
Contributors: De Armas, Frederick Alfred.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Penn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Art and literature -- Spain.
Description: "Writing for the Eyes offers a vision of possibilities to those who wish to study the intricate relations between the verbal and the visual during the Spanish Golden Age. Writing, during the early modern period, often had a strongly visual component. Poets and other writers of fiction appealed to this sense in particular since it was thought that visualization was key to memory. Furthermore, the sisterhood and competition between painting and poetry had an ancient heritage, one that writers of the Golden Age often evoked and emulated. Although the very notion of writing for the eyes was not new to the Spanish Golden Age, its ubiquitous presence during this period calls for rethinking of the traditional separation between the visual and the verbal in studies of Iberian culture." "This collection of essays seeks to open up this complex interdisciplinary field of study by including essays on many aspects of visual writing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: (Mis)placing the muse : Ekphrasis in Cervantes' La Galatea / Frederick A. de Armas; title: The pomegranate of Don Quixote 1.9 / E.C. Graf; title: The Quixotic art : Cervantes, Vasari, and Michelangelo / Christopher B. Weimer; title: Mirroring desire in early modern Spanish poetry : some lessons from painting / Maria Cristina Quintero; title: Inscribing transgression, siting identity : Arguijo's and Phaëthon and Ganymede in painting and text / Mary E. Barnard; title: Writing on the fractured "I" : Gongora's iconographic evocations of Vulcan, Venus, and Mars / Steven Wagschal; title: Optics and vocabularies of the visual in Luis de Gongora and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / Emilie L. Bergmann; title: Lope de Vega and Titian : the goddess as emblem of sacred and profane love / Timothy Ambrose; title: To possess her in paint : (pro)creative failure and crisis in El pintor de su deshonra / Laura Bass; title: Visual and oral art(ifice) in Maria de Zayas's desengaños amorosos / Lisa Voigt; title: The baroque at play : homiletic and pedagogical emblems in Francisco Garau and other Spanish Golden Age preachers / John T. Cull; title: Quevedo resting on his laurels : a (topo)graphical topos in el Parnasso español / Julio Velez-Sainz; title: Linguistic and pictorial conceits in the baroque : Velazquez between Quevedo and Gracian / Lia Schwartz.