Ekphrasis in the age of Cervantes
By: edited by Frederick A. de Armas.
Contributors: De Armas, Frederick Alfred.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Ekphrasis.
Description: "Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes provides a range of possibilities to those who wish to study the delicate and suggestive connections between the verbal and the visual during the Spanish Golden Age. Writing, during the early modern period, repeatedly captured the reader's imagination through a strongly visual component. Thus this book focuses on one such visual device - ekphrasis. This ancient technique has its locus classicus in Homer's Iliad and becomes prominent in the Middle Ages through the diffusion of Virgil's Aeneid. Renaissance Italian writers such as Dante, Ariosto, and Boiardo have emulated this classical technique and understood its range and complexities."

"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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Simple magic : ekphrasis from aniquity to the Age of Cervantes / Frederick A. de Armas; title: Ekphrastic treatments of Salviati's Paintings and imprese / Deborah Cibelli; title: The painted text in the age of Cervantes : ekphrasis and the Renaissance student (classical versus biblical authority in Villalón's Scholástico) / Kathleen Bollard; title: Eucharistic conjunction : emblems, illustrations, and Calderón's Autos / John Slater; title: From Parmigianino to Pereda : Luis de Góngora on Beautiful women and vanitas; title: Steven Wagschal; title: Quixotic ekphrasis : ekphrasis in the prologue to Don Quijote, I : Urganda "the Unknowable" and the mirrors of fiction / Ana María Laguna; title: The first illustrator of Don Quixote : Miguel de Cervantes / William Worden; title: Individuation, Ekphrasis, and Death in Don Quixote / Cristina Müller; title: IV : Cervantes's other ekphrastic texts : Heliodorus, Cervantes, La Fayette (Ekphrasis and the feminist origins of the modern novel) ; A portrait of a lady : representations of Sigismunda-Auristela in Cervantes's Persiles / Eric C. Graf; title: Portrait of a lady : representations of Sigismunda-Aruistela in Cervantes's Persiles / Ignacio López Alemani; title: Painting with blood and dance : Titan's Salome and Cervantes's El retablos de las maravillas / Frederick A. de Armas.