Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture

Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture
Author: Alicia R Zuese
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783167858

By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires. To interrogate characters’ mental activity, internalisation of text and the effects on memory, this book applies methodologies from cognitive cultural studies, Classical memory treatises and techniques of spiritual visualisation. It breaks new ground by investigating how artistic genres and material culture help us grasp the audience’s aural, material, visual and textual literacies, which equipped the public with cognitive mechanisms to face restrictions in post-Counter-Reformation Spain. The writers examined include prominent representatives of Spanish prose —Cervantes, Lope de Vega, María de Zayas and Luis Vélez de Guevara— as well as Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses and an anonymous group in Córdoba.

Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture

Baroque Spain and the Writing of Visual and Material Culture
Author: Alicia R Zuese
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 178316784X

By examining the pictorial episodes in the Spanish baroque novella, this book elucidates how writers create pictorial texts, how audiences visualise their words, what consequences they exert on cognition and what actions this process inspires. To interrogate characters’ mental activity, internalisation of text and the effects on memory, this book applies methodologies from cognitive cultural studies, Classical memory treatises and techniques of spiritual visualisation. It breaks new ground by investigating how artistic genres and material culture help us grasp the audience’s aural, material, visual and textual literacies, which equipped the public with cognitive mechanisms to face restrictions in post-Counter-Reformation Spain. The writers examined include prominent representatives of Spanish prose —Cervantes, Lope de Vega, María de Zayas and Luis Vélez de Guevara— as well as Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses and an anonymous group in Córdoba.

On Art and Painting

On Art and Painting
Author:
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2016-07-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783168617

The only volume on the work of Vicente Carducho in English Analysis of the Dialogues on Painting by international experts Contributors are art historians or hispanists, offering a multi-disciplinary approach

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898)

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898)
Author: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2020-11-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351606344

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) brings together an international team of scholars to explore new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for the study of colonialism. Using four overarching themes, the volume examines a wide array of critical issues, key texts, and figures that demonstrate the significance of Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean across national and regional traditions and historical periods. This invaluable resource will be of interest to students and scholars of Spanish and Latin American studies examining colonial Caribbean and Latin America at the intersection of cultural and historical studies; transatlantic, postcolonial and decolonial studies; and critical approaches to archives and materiality. This timely volume assesses the impact and legacy of colonialism and coloniality.

Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance

Cervantes' Persiles and the Travails of Romance
Author: Marina S. Brownlee
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487530897

This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes’ final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With particular relevance to the period, the Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory.

Culture of the Baroque

Culture of the Baroque
Author: José Antonio Maravall
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1986
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816614458

Maravall focuses on the beginnings of Spanish Baroque mass culture as it developes in 17th century Spain and the role culture plays in the formation of the modern state in relationship to other western European contries.

The Baroque

The Baroque
Author: Peter N. Skrine
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2023-05-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000906868

First Published in 1978, The Baroque focuses on eight areas where it expressed itself most successfully. The cultural movement called baroque dominated most of the Western Europe from the late sixteenth century to the 1720s. During that long time, it went through various phases, affecting some arts, some countries more than others. There are many overlapping definitions of baroque like from a mode of European painting to a style of architecture or rather a cultural phenomenon which manifested itself most noticeably in the fine and applied arts. In this book each chapter presents a separate exploration of different interlinked facets of this vast and maze-like subject. This book is an interesting read for scholars of European literature.

Baroque & Rococo

Baroque & Rococo
Author: Vernon Hyde Minor
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Traditional surveys of the period divide their material strictly by countries and chronological periods. By contrast, Vernon Minor looks at the prevalent themes of Baroque and Rococo artistic production through the lens of the dominant institutions of the day. The ideologies of the Counter-Reformation Church, the court of Louis Quatorze and the mercantile economy of the Calvinist Dutch are implicit in much of the painting, sculpture and architecture of the epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

Hispanic Baroques

Hispanic Baroques
Author: Nicholas Spadaccini
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780826514998

Essays focus on Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an understanding of Hispanic cultures during the last several hundred years

Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain

Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain
Author: Mary Barnard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442664282

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, though in imagined settings, as literary artefacts. These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish literature, including clothing, paintings, tapestries, playing cards, monuments, materials of war, and even enchanted bronze heads. The contributors emphasize how literature preserved and transformed objects to endow them with new meaning for aesthetic, social, religious, and political purposes ­– whether to perpetuate certain habits of thought and belief, or to challenge accepted social and moral norms.