The persistence of presence
Subtitle: emblem and ritual in Baroque Spain
By: Bradley J. Nelson
Series: University of Toronto romance series; University of Toronto romance series
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780802099778
Subjects: Spanish Emblem books; Spanish literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Emblem theory, emblem practice: a consideration of Juan de Borja's resistance to theory; title: Anamorphosis and theoretical depth of meaning: Juan de Horozco's Emblemas morales; title: Lope de Vega's emblematic Indios: the discovery of America, or the end(s) of history; title: From hieroglyphic presence to representational sign: the Auto Sacramental and the ritual colonization of modernity; title: Calderón's El alcalde de Zalamea: Pedro Crespo as literary subject; title: A ritual practice for modernity: Baltasar Gracián's organized body of taste; title: Bodies and corpses, voices and silence: grotesque presence in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda.